I'm no expert, but I think there are lots of countries where doctors can require payments over the government rates.

But, even if the US didn't adopt that, I'm not too worried about whether a millionaire doctor has to take a haircut to *only* be upper middle class.

That's already the case in the US. There are tons of doctors that rich people can access that the average Joe can't. In fact, it's worse here than in any country that has universal healthcare. Do you have any evidence showing that it's actually better here? I mean this is just silly.

MORE: Under questioning by the judge, prosecutor Tyler Lemons said that he’s under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether there is a declination memo recommending against the prosecution of Comey

Describing Shelby County as "scorning the record,
history, legislative branch, and a great American law, to
daydream a textually-unsupported rule that Alabama’s equal
sovereignty prevents the federal government from enforcing
federal law – a law the Chief Justice had a hunch worked too well"!

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact.
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