D o you really think all doctors are corrupt? Or just an elite few who, by nature of their greed, have amassed more power and wealth than the others? There are millions and millions of doctors in the world, and despite the growing image of doctors as money grubbing psychopaths who view people as soulless organ collections, the majority of doctors really do care about our health and want us to be healthier. If we had the estimated 10-15 million doctors in the world elect government representatives who had binding power to set health-relevant policies, disease and sickness would stand no chance.
If a community of experts was just voting themselves more money, the rest of society would eventually notice and that community would stop being considered experts. Like the doctor-patient relationship, where the patient trusts the doctor’s expertise, the general population will trust the expertise of expert communities. When an individual doctor is found to be in breach of his medical ethics, there are legal and institutional processes that will revoke his license, fine him, and even convict him with a crime. These same processes will apply for the macrocosm. Institutions will be created with the express purpose of checking any abuse of power. The Millionaire Estate Tax will ensure that government regulators have abundant resources with which to conduct thorough investigations.
