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President Trump signed the law and made it happen despite the fact that a good number of Republicans were against it. That's the point. He is making the right
by robomartin 7y ago
President Trump signed the law and made it happen despite the fact that a good number of Republicans were against it. That's the point. He is making the right decisions.
As for your comment regarding accreditation for doctors operating outside the US, you are wrong. As a simple example, I refer you to the requirements for working anywhere Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières opearates:
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/careers/work-field/general-requirements https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/careers/work-field/gen...
My wife is a doctor with international credentials. We have friends and family members in various areas in the US, Europe and South America who are doctors covering a range of disciplines in various domains. And we lived in more than one country. Through them and life experience I know these medical systems, their drivers, advantages, disadvantages and issues very well. I am not pulling these statements out of a vacuum chamber.
With regards to US doctors not being able to practice across state lines. It's real, messy and complicated:
https://www.ortholive.com/blog/practicing-medicine-across-state-lines-its-currently-complicated https://www.ortholive.com/blog/practicing-medicine-across-st...
And, yes, it is ridiculous. Either we are a country or a bunch clans. I can't think of any other nation where a doctor is limited to practicing medicine in a single province. To say this is crazy is an understatement. Doctors take time and tons of money to produce, they are a scarce resource...and we limit them to operating within a single state? Someone tell me why this makes sense.
On the topic of fixing the system with insurance. Someone please explain how the cost of insurance can be lowered without lowering the underlying costs said insurance covers first. This is a very fundamental principle of business. If you want to reduce the cost of a downstream element in the chain you have to first address costs upstream. Cause and effect. You can't reverse that reality. Impossible.
Or, to put it in different terms, if the cost of operating a business is $10MM per year and revenue is $1MM per year that business is not sustainable. You can't lower insurance costs artificially. The cost of insurance is an effect, not a cause.