What's even worse is not only are people pay 500% more for care, the care they are getting is 500% worse. When you really need care, you're going to go to an overworked specialist at some hospital or medical group. Good luck seeing one sooner than 60 days out unless you're in the ER. And even when you do see one, you'll get ten minutes and they haven't reviewed your file when they walk in.

When I was a kid, I had two solo-doctors that ran their own practices and they did everything, including taking x-rays in office themselves and putting on the casts. One of them even kept common pharmaceuticals in his office and would hand you the script right there.