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Go get a quote for how expensive it is to have your locks handyman install new countertops. Now project that into workers who have a lot more education and need to use very expensive equipment to do their jobs.

It’s not “profit motive.” Labor is expensive in a first world country.

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It's even more expensive when the government regulates it to hell and back, intertwines itself with insurance industry, and has an incestuous relationship with the AMA resulting in massively fewer number of doctors than would like to go through the education. And then those same doctors, who are usually on the same professional board as say PAs, use their leverage as a hammer against other high level practitioners to ensure they don't lose a handle on their racket.

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