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We do not know as I write when and where and even if the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 crashed, and still less in what circumstances. It is the strangest story in recent aviation history. In one episode we learn how poorly the authorities are equipped to search out and look for a possibly downed aircraft despite the fact that we live beneath a sky glowing with airplane jet streams.
Decades ago, when the debate was about whether we could afford Medicaid or "socialized medicine", I was saying it's a supply-side problem. Yet there is still no cure for that in sight.
The AMA makes it way too difficult to become a doctor. They know a scarce supply raises the price. So every MD in America gets a greed-given right to be a millionaire. Yes, the US has one of the lowest ratios of doctors per capita in the world.