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Where "better" here means "allows doctors to continue to earn much more money than they do in other countries for performing the same services".
by gok 8y ago
Where "better" here means "allows doctors to continue to earn much more money than they do in other countries for performing the same services".
- influx 8y agoHow much should they be allowed to earn?
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- gok 8y agoHowever much they can get someone to pay them! So long as they're aren't also using their cartel power to reduce the availability of medical care. Which they are.
- charliesharding 8y agoHow would they get anyone to pay anything if their services are being offered by the government as a basic human right? They lose all bargaining power if they can't refuse their services.
- zaroth 8y agoIf the government offers too little money, the supply drops and you get quotas, waiting lists, and denied treatments.
- british_india 8y agoUnlike many other highly-paid individuals, modern doctors are not innovating anything. They are essentially body plumbers. They are not doing anything unique enough to justify quarter-million-dollar salaries.
- axaxs 8y agoI'm all for free healthcare, but this is a legitimate concern due to exorbitant education costs. Doctors often enter the field with high 6 figure or low 7 figure debts, with the expectation they'll make enough to pay it off quickly. I can't see a fair path to lower salaries without subsidizing outstanding debts.
- tootie 8y agoFirst, let's not use the phrase "free healthcare" because it's never going to be free. It's more about how we as a society choose to pay the cost. Secondly, reducing the barriers to getting a good medical education could easily be part of the solution. I also think there is a clear downward spiral that occurs when doctors earn exorbitant income, then medical school becomes more in demand, then prices increase, then salaries have to compensate and so on.
- sanderjd 8y agoDo any of these bills attempt to dig us out of that doctor debt / high salary hole?
- british_india 8y agoSo why is medical school so expensive? It's staffed with obscenely highly paid doctors. It's self perpetuating.