American Medical Care — Is It Worth It?

Blaming the high cost of health care on physicians is silly; it's like blaming the cost ofjet fuel on the pilot. Doctors are not culpable for the cost of medical care. Physicians' fees used to represent 20 cents of the health dollar. Over the past decade this has decreased to 15 cents of each dollar spent. Faced with the ineluctable truth that doctors account for such a small proportion of the total expense, those who would make us the scapegoat have countered with the argument that although we receive only 15 per cent of the total, we order and are . . .