[pieceofthepuzzle]

This is what happens when government is involved in medicine. Most of us who do medicine do not charge for ‘overtime’. In fact, the opposite is true, and there is no renumeration for calling patients after hours etc. This guy has some kind of city contract that allows him to essentially rape the public. This is why Obamacare, and any other bureaucracy heavy types of medical systems, will not save money.

Further, I don't know whether this guy is from the US or not originally, but the general idea that bringing in foreign docs is going to reduce costs is just ridiculous.

[traditional1]

"This is what happens when government is involved in medicine"

This is what happens with ALL Government-funded (aka, Taxpayer-funded) Programs, INCLUDING wherever there is UNION Public Employees. There's Overtime Abuse, Sick Time Abuse, OVERSTAFFED abuse, UNDER-PRODUCTION Abuse, etc.

The Taxpayers are to Government what DEEP POCKETS are to Civil Trial Lawyers: UN-LIMITED, UN-ABATED income.