Do you think doctors in the United States are paid too much? (healthcare, insurance)

[lexdiamondz1902]

Why or why not?

[Frank DeForrest]

Impossible to say since the medical world exists in a bubble outside of the free market

[Roadking2003]

For the most part, the market sets the compensation of doctors so they are quite appropriate. If we got the government out of the picture, their compensation would be totally appropriate.

[Kibby]

"They didn't build that" or study years for that Medical degree :roll eyes:

Doctors should work for Free and spread the Wealth. "It's the fair thing to do".

[MaseMan]

Originally Posted by Kibby

"They didn't build that" or study years for that Medical degree :roll eyes:

Doctors should work for Free and spread the Wealth. "It's the fair thing to do".

Other countries have a system figured out and still have doctors, but we're too "exceptional" for that to work here.

[lexdiamondz1902]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

Impossible to say since the medical world exists in a bubble outside of the free market

But why should something like healthcare be left up to the free market?

[victimofGM]

The general practitioner, ER doctor, and on staff hospital internist don't get paid nearly as much as one would think, especially when you consider the very long hours hospital staff doctors put in. At our hospital, the ER doctors have a sleep room because they need to catch as much sleep as possible when there's a break between patients. Some specialist surgeons charge far too much. Something to consider is the patients they treat who won't pay their bills, the doctors do volunteer work with charity clinics and VA facilities, malpractice insurance cost, having to hire more staff to deal with insurance companies & laws, and paying back student loans. Good doctors will also continue their studies to stay abreast on the latest medical technology. Some of what they may have learned may later be proven to be wrong or a better way discovered.

[FireFly2]

It's funny how people always complain about doctors being paid too much. I don't see articles complaining about actors, athletes, or reality show idiots being paid too much... and they make way more than doctors.

[whogo]

Originally Posted by lexdiamondz1902

But why should something like healthcare be left up to the free market?

For the same reasons everything else should be.

[Supplies]

I'd want my doctors to be rich , wouldn't want to be under the knife relying on a surgeon that's worring about where his next mortgage payments coming from , in fact I'd want doctors to be very very rich, rich enough to be able to give their kids a great education hopefully putting them through medical school , we need good healthy wealthy doctors ..