A better solution, of course, might be for the healthcare system to stop subsidizing pharma, i.e., to curtail patent laws, ease import prohibitions, and give up third-party purchasing of drugs. These factors are much more responsible for the high prices of drugs than the behavior of doctors. But proposals to remove subsidies are usually deemed unconscionable: How could an industry operate without government incentives and guarantees?!
The real reason, however, is that healthcare progressivism operates by doling out perks and subsidies to everyone: doctors, hospitals, patients, pharma, industry, administrators, bureaucrats, lobbyists, voters...The whole 18 percent of GDP is corrupted by this boondoggle. We've all become hooked on the healthcare system, and there's more influence in that dependence than anyone could ever stuff in a sandwich handed out to a hungry cardiologist.
Read on:
http://alertandoriented.com/the-pharma-fed-doctor/