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No wonder health care is expensive in the US when a neurosurgeon can blow $75k on a whim.
by Thlom 8y ago
No wonder health care is expensive in the US when a neurosurgeon can blow $75k on a whim.
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- sverige 8y agoYou should see what kind of money the insurance execs blow on toys.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoI don’t see insurance company executives compensated any more than other large company executives. If anything, insurance companies are more conservative.
- arethuza 8y ago"insurance companies are more conservative." What about AIG?
- sverige 8y agoHealth care insurance CEOs are paid well, and better than others in that system. [0] Insurance companies in general are generous with their CEOs. Total compensation for CEO of Allstate was $42 million in 2010 (last time I checked them). [0] https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150425/MAGAZINE/304259980 https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150425/MAGAZINE/3...
- arethuza 8y agoAIG-FP paid Joseph Cassano ("Patient Zero of the global economic meltdown.") $315 million and he wasn't even CEO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cassano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cassano
- lotsofpulp 8y agoThat article isn't about health insurance companies.
- sverige 8y agoRight, it's about the health care industry, which includes insurance companies and other segments of the industry. It shows that health insurance CEOs are paid better than CEOs from other segments of the industry. It is in response to the assertion that insurance execs are compensated more conservatively than execs from other large companies, specifically compared to segments of the same industry.
- geodel 8y agoThis is peculiar US thing where anything said against doctor is taken as personal slight. All healthcare issues have been caused by insurance, government, bureaucracy or anyone except doctors.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoThere better be a big payday if I’m spending all my 20s in school and then 100 weeks in residency a few years and then finally in my 30s I start making money, but I still have to deal with the general public, and they’re sick.
- rubidium 8y agoYou should talk to more teachers.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoUnless you don't have other options or really, really love teaching, I wouldn't recommend becoming a teacher unless the pay was greatly increased. Too much liability and annoyance of dealing with other parents.
- Casseres 8y agoOr if you want a M-F, 7a-3p job with great vacation. Though you might need to grade homework/projects on your time off, as well as develop lesson plans. (I went to a Super Bowl party, and there were teachers grading worksheets in the corner.)
- giarc 8y agoResidents get paid, doctors don't spend their 20's as un-paid employees of the medical system.
- Frondo 8y agoLots of people work hard and work long hours all their life; where's their big payday?
- lotsofpulp 8y agoThey may not have a choice, people who are intelligent enough and/or supported enough to become doctors presumably have other high paying options. High pay is determined by supply and demand, not how hard you work.