Doctors are losing income and autonomy.

Regina E. Herzlinger faults The American Medical Association, which took in $286 million in revenue last year to protect the profession, and academic medical journals, which regularly “publish studies that supposedly document the cupidity and ignorance of practicing physicians while lauding the virtues of single-payer health-care systems, such as those in Canada or Britain, in which the physician is paid only by the government.”

No wonder, she observes, that applications to medical schools are down by nearly 20 percent in the past ten years. (Washington Post)