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Pharmaceutical not equal doctors. The former is not funded by doctors but by the patients. So it will be better to extend medicaid to more people to fund the fo

• bsaul 13y ago
  It's an ecosystem. Doctors and hospitals are the pharma industrie customers for many many things such as medical equipment. Doctors in france fees have their fees regulated by the state. They can't charge what they want. If the fee in the OP story was 18€ it's not because the doctor think it's fair to be paid just like a maid, but because the state fixed the price. And fixed prices is a big reason why our social security has been working in the last decades in France, and why medicaid may not work in the US. It is an ecosystem, where everyone has to aggree on keeping the prices down.