Why the UK Suddenly Is Suffering from a Physician Shortage

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In the last six years, 585 surgical practices have closed, affecting 1.9 million patients. Last year alone, 138 surgery facilities closed their doors, up from 18 in 2013. What changed during that time?

Source: Why the UK Suddenly Is Suffering from a Physician Shortage - Foundation for Economic Education

An older article but a good illustration of how overtaxing the rich can be a bad thing and why simply calling something a right doesn't make it so...especially when that so-called right requires labor from others.

First politicians set up a punitive taxation system that actually disincentivizes people from working and some of the most important workers in society at that (i.e. doctors). Then these same people have the arrogance to call healthcare a right. As if simply labeling it that ensures timely, quality healthcare. You might as well call being rich a "right" as well.

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