Yes, a significant minority of physicians has done very nicely in the US healthcare system – but all that is changing now

With the American presidential election approaching, a major campaign issue in 2012 will be growing income inequality in the United States. In the past three generations, family incomes in the US have risen, but incomes of the highest earners have risen much faster than those of everyone else. Since the economic downturn of 2008, the disparity in wealth has widened – hence the Occupy movement, with its rallying cry "the 1%" and "the 99%"