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In plenty of other countries doctors are paid substantially less and the quality of healthcare is better. I don't think it's impossible for the U.S. to do what
by Chathamization 10y ago
In plenty of other countries doctors are paid substantially less and the quality of healthcare is better. I don't think it's impossible for the U.S. to do what everyone else is already doing.
- throwaway2048 10y agoHowever, I doubt the quality of care is better BECAUSE they are paid less.
- ethbro 10y agoThe statistics in similar free market countries (labor, not health care) are curious. Interested in any links you have, but this NYT blog post [1] seems to show that, GDP-per-capita normalized (which seems reasonable; second chart), there isn't that large of a divergence between what I would assume would be comparable nations. Nurses make 0.9-1.4x, GPs 1.7-4.1x, and specialists 1.7-7.6x GDPpc. Certainly a range, but nothing jumps out at me as "the US is an order of magnitude outlier." I'd be fascinated to make a further breakdown of these numbers in terms of style of country's health care system, to see what correlations drop out though... [1] https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/how-much-do-doctors-in-other-countries-make/ https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/how-much-do-do...