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Student loans and "early years" costs and privation are a fact of professional life. It took the Obamas years to pay back their student loans. Why do doctors feel they have to make it up in their first six months -- and by gouging it out of their patients? They invest, too, their incomes arent all salary.
You know damn well Obama choose his lifestyle. In fact he made it well known he decided to take a path of semi poverty to become a community organizer. You think a doctor pays their loans off in 6 months? Seriously? Quit playing games...
Amazingly enough the people so vehemently against doctors and their career choices seem to be the same ones that have pent up anger about what they decided to do with their lives. A raise of hands of how many people with PhD's should be in order...
I have zero problems with anyone's salary if the marketplace demands it. The only beef I have is their guild that restricts the amount of new doctors admitted to universities, keeping salaries artificially higher and distorts the marketplace. A capitalist system with much more lax admission standards or not requiring accreditation would greatly reduce salaries. In a true marketplace environment, a doctor would make half of their distorted salary. As a member of the Ph.D. "club" do not retain the benefit of a guild to restrict new membership.
And then the Insurance company denies another patient surgery to recoup its losses.
No one here, that I see, is arguing against reform. What some of us are against is a government monopoly that destroys choice and despite what the fuhrer has said that's their plan. Monopolies are bad in almost all cases.
I have zero problems with anyone's salary if the marketplace demands it. The only beef I have is their guild that restricts the amount of new doctors admitted to universities, keeping salaries artificially higher and distorts the marketplace. A capitalist system with much more lax admission standards or not requiring accreditation would greatly reduce salaries.
Exactly and insurance companies that can have monopolies because they can't cross state lines. That's at least my stance on the issue.
Where did everyone go? Where are all of the bashers? When you start talking about why procedures cost so much they take off. Why, because the fees Hospitals are charging are indefensible.
Some of us have jobs and lives outside of city data. I know that's just crazy talk.
If I were a U.S. insurance company, I'd send everyone to these overseas clinics if it were cheaper! That threat alone ought to force U.S. providers to lower their prices (factoring in malpractice costs, etc., of course)!
I would recommend Canada. A friend on vacation had to have to prescriptions wriotte3n and he was charge $200.00 with no exam for the prescriptions being writen from his refill bottles.Then the cost of teh medicine.this was because he was delayed gwetting back to Houston because of a hurricane.
If I were a U.S. insurance company, I'd send everyone to these overseas clinics if it were cheaper! That threat alone ought to force U.S. providers to lower their prices (factoring in malpractice costs, etc., of course)!
Cost to medical providers for medical malpractice.
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