From that point on the government seemed to just want to get rid of the models, moving them into storage, sending some back to their owners and allowing the Smithsonian to take some important ones--Isaac Singer's sewing machine, for example, and Samuel Colt's revolver.
These doctors, the argument goes, use their patient-referral power to keep the best-paying and healthiest cases and leave others to take the difficult or under-insured ones.