Because for other jobs, if you screwed up, at most only suffer money loss. But if doctor screwed up, someone can lost their life. That's why doctor must be fully educated, so that they don't make mistakes that can kill people.

I feel the protest is bullshit. All the gov is asking is for GP to DISPLAY prices upfront only, not capping you from profiting from your business.

I don't see anything wrong with displaying your prices upfront. If you want to charge RM10k for the medicine, then just display la RM10k for medicine.

Why can’t these GPs just display the prices upfront just like how hair saloons do on their shop outside. Some hair saloons charged RM50 per cut, some charged RM150 per cut. If you think the saloon is worth it, people will come.

What these GP are scared of is that once everyone display the prices upfront, people outside can easily compare pricing and would then choose to go to another clinic nearby that is significantly cheaper so in the end, that GP had to lower their prices too if they want to attract customers back. Thus, resulting is lower profit overall.

Then, get mechanic to display prices upfront too. I think having price display upfront for all industry is a good practice, because everyone can benefit from it. Firstly business can find better supplier deals, so they can reduce costs and improve profit. Second, customers gets to chose services that they can afford so everyone can reduce their costs overall.

Eventually, the market will reach an equilibrium, where you can get XX service at this XX price on average. So, to increase their price range, the doctors will be then motivated their service level to attract high paying customers to their clinics.

Just like people can chose which hair saloons they did. If your service is good, even if your price is high, people will come. If you charge high, but service poor, then people will go to other saloon.