Wealth or Health?

It seems curious that when private lawyers are earning as much as $350 per hour from the state that an hourly charge of $150 from a physician is often arbitrarily considered above the “usual and customary” by the health insurers, private or governmental.

Since our education system demands far more hours to qualify one to practice medicine than law, and most of the legal issues end up merely as financial bickerings, is our society saying that wealth is more vital than health?

JOHN T. CHIU, MD

Corona del Mar