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Glad I live in a country with a free health service.

• influx 9y ago
  What country is that which doesn’t pay doctors?
  • jacquesm 9y ago
    Did you really link 'free healthcare' with 'a country that does not pay doctors'? Clearly healthcare can be free to the recipients while doctors still get a good salary.
    • jessaustin 9y ago
      I get to drive on most roads without paying, but I wouldn't say that the roads are "free"?
      • jacquesm 9y ago
        Compared to toll roads they are free...
        • jessaustin 9y ago
          We've uncovered a potential ambiguity in the original phrasing of "free health service". Could the now-dead response to that comment have been highlighting this very ambiguity?
    • arkades 9y ago
      Most countries with free healthcare do have woefully underpaid doctors. The NHS has been cutting back aggressively on doc salaries for years, letting them fall well behind inflation. The only thing I can say in their defense is that at least docs in those countries don’t generally take on massive, private, un-dischargeable debt in order to do the job. In the US we treat the medical workforce as a public good, though they have to take on all the risk of entering that workforce through private financing.