Also, yes about the GP doing well. The 80's were a huge blow to the idea that one can live a nice, reasonable lifestyle; in that decade, life suddenly became about being RICH, as opposed to being comfortable, and that's what drove so many students away from GP practice. Our family doctor had a very nice house in Santa Monica, one of the best areas in L.A., and lived a comfortable life, and he was only a GP. But all that became not enough somehow, and going into general medicine to make a nice, secure living became passe.

But if the universal system we're all hoping for is based on a solid foundation of GP practitioners, whose training would be far more broadly based in all the different aspects that make basic health, then that kind of medicine would become attractive again. Also, after a few years of economic difficulties, a nice, comfortable, reasonable living might well gain popularity again. You never know.