Something askew

Kaiser Family Foundation reports that the average family premium for health insurance will be $10,800 next year, more than a full-time minimum wage salary. Meanwhile, excellent primary care physicians like Dr. Lindeman (see his comment on the concierge medicine post) struggle to make a reasonable living. What gives? For one thing there's an over-allocation of resources to expensive diagnostics, surgical procedures and drugs and not enough emphasis on quality primary care.