in small areas, in country .ituations, it is a problem there is still, if there is anybody, a countrytor not making much money. in urban centers, i do not think that is true. >> i am counting on my fingers the numbers of doctors my family has been to in the last year or so. it is probably a dozen. none of them is a consultant for a drug company or at a clinic. the vast majority of doctors, as i point out in the article, and the nurses, they are the only ones who do not live in this alternate universe of being on the gravy train the rest of the country has not enjoyed for the last decade. it is just a fact. priorities, i would care more the regional sales manager is making a half- million million dollars a year than i would the doctors are making half $1 million zero or a million dollars a year. >> that is part of the pricing system? >> that is crucial. before about how medicare's choices affect the practices of medicine, not just the cost. one of the most important is by medicare has done underpricing the services of general practitioners relative to procedures. it has caused over two

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