My hand surgeon should have been paid $4.5 billion. Instead, he didn’t get even $1,000.
I believe that health care providers aren’t paid anything close to what they are worth to society. I don’t mean this in the sappy emotional sense in which the “value of any human’s life is infinite,” or any other subjective standard. I am talking about real-world, measurable economic impacts. Using the entrepreneurs’ 10% reward as a guide, …
My hand surgeon should have been paid $4.5 billion. Instead, he didn’t get even $1,000.

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