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How about capping the salaries of doctors at, say, 100,000 and nurses at 60,000? US salaries in health care are incredibly high. Administration and the like cou
by Melchizedek 10y ago
How about capping the salaries of doctors at, say, 100,000 and nurses at 60,000? US salaries in health care are incredibly high. Administration and the like could be capped at the nurse level. Only a very small minority could realistically get higher paying jobs outside the US anyway. If your main motivation is to make a lot of money, choose a different career.
Also, cap profits to almost zero while moving to a completely not-for-profit system.
- throwaway729 10y agoCapping admin salaries makes a lot of sense. Maybe not at nurse level, but at doctor level for sure. Capping doctor's salaries at $100,000 is probably a bad idea. Some cap might make sense, but definitely not $100,000. $100,000 may sound like a lot, but keep in mind that US doctors take on a lot of debt -- both actual and in terms of opportunity cost. And they also take on a lot of personal risk up until the point where they become doctors. And sometimes even after thatn. So you're not really saying that should make "around what a software dev makes". You're actually saying that doctors should make significantly less than your average software developer. Driving smart and driven people away from medicine doesn't seem like a great idea.