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After all the schooling, long hours, huge school bills, stress of knowing the wrong decision could be the difference between life and death of their patient.... there are people actually begrudge doctors? Amazing. This is the people Obama called rich and insisted on raising taxes on. These are the people that Obama supporters begrudge.
After all the schooling, long hours of working and huge school bills most importantly their saving people lives there are people actually begrudge doctors? Amazing.
Not at all, just a better argument in favor of a single payer system. The current system is just too onerous and costly. Too many artificial barriers to entry, to many burdens and costs to the individual.
Not at all, just a better argument in favor of a single payer system. The current system is just too onerous and costly. Too many artificial barriers to entry, to many burdens and costs to the individual.
Its not slavery, if they want to practice medicine in this country, they need to be willing to take patients. If they don't, there are others who will take their place.
Well, of course it's slavery. Some of you need to seriously brush up on the 13th Amendment to the U.S Constitution.
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I also second that there is an artificial shortage of doctors created by the AMA, just to keep salaries high.
You know this for a fact? What I know for a fact is we have a shortage of engineers, IT professionals and finanace and accounting specialists. What do they have in commom? Good math skills, which this country is still doing poorly in. Our educational system is not serving us well.
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Plenty of people want to become doctors. The outmoded way that instruction is given and artificial scarcity has limited the number of people who could effectively practice medicine.
I'm sure they do. But there's also a lot of dummies out there. It takes 12 years of schooling after high school to get a medical degree, and an additional 5 years after that for a specialty like say, heart surgery. You really want to rush that?
Let's mandate salary, travekl restrictions and benefit caps for our legislators.
Let's mandate legislators must read and understand legislation they approve.
Lower the medical exam requirements for Euro 'doctors' who would otherwise become xray techs in the US.
the proposal to mandate docs treat M&M patients is the result of constricted thinking in a fantasy world of extremely limited imagination by incompetent legislators who reflect the ignorance of their electorate.
Lower the medical exam requirements for Euro 'doctors' who would otherwise become xray techs in the US.
Those 'Euro' docs do a pretty good job keep their patients alive:
For life expectancy the US is 33rd behind:
Switzerland
Italy
Iceland
Spain
Monaco
France
Sweden
Luxemborgue
Norway
Cyprus
Netherlands
Greece
Austria
Greece
Ireland
Finland
Germany
UK
Belgium
Malta
Portugal
Denmark...
Salaries are dictated by the market. Something you forgot to mention is the cost of malpractice insurance. For OBGYN's the premiums range from $100K-$200K/year.
One should also remember the salaries of his staff, office rent, supplies, equipment, etc.
Or do you think that the money for all that just magically appears, the Dr. doesn't have to pay it out of what the practice earns?
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