Ed Morgan: Doctors are Big Pharma's Sales Force

Today, The Two Mikes spoke with Ed Morgan, who is a very articulate advocate for American medical patients. Mr. Morgan noted that not only is healthcare the largest U.S. industry, but that the industry has created an atmosphere – deliberately? – that has made the role of highly-paid medical specialists and very expensive pharmaceuticals the first resort for patients, which has denigrated the essential role that primary care doctors have long played in the medical care of Americans. The reason for this switch, of course, is that for the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry their main acti...