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I'm seconding scarejumba's position here. Doctor's are enormously powerful and effectively unionized through the AMA. They can influence both the operations of
by L_Rahman 8y ago
I'm seconding scarejumba's position here. Doctor's are enormously powerful and effectively unionized through the AMA. They can influence both the operations of hospitals and the American government itself.
Like any aristocratic guild that provides a necessary societal function however, they as a block choose to profit from it.
This is not every doctor or even every ER doctor. But it's important not to let doctors as a class off the hook.
- technofiend 8y agoWhy would you intentionally lower your income rate, particularly after racking up $500k in tuition? Doctors have no incentive to lower bill rates as long as they're pocketing a percentage.
- zo1 8y agoIt's unfortunately probably the case that these things have been feeding into each other. Some doctors charge more -> college's can justify higher tuition because people think doctors now make more -> now new doctors NEED to charge more to tuition debt and to get the benefits they were sold on. Rinse and repeat.