The Post's oped pages are always open to the voices of the suffering and the dispossesed. In the last two weeks we've heard wailing on behalf of the insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and now the doctors. Doctors in the U.S. are struggling to get by on just $200,000 a year (net of malpractice insurance). This is only twice as much as doctors get in other wealthy countries. How can they make ends meet?
--Dean Baker
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