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Doctors in Cuba make $50 to $70 a month, I can only imagine how much the nurses are making. Given this I don't think there's a straightforward way of porting th
by walkhour 5y ago
Doctors in Cuba make $50 to $70 a month, I can only imagine how much the nurses are making. Given this I don't think there's a straightforward way of porting their system to the US. A US Doctor may make more money than the whole staff of a hospital in Cuba.
It's amazing how affordable things are when labour is dirt cheap.
That being said the US could start by augmenting immigration from healthcare professionals, like it happens in many other sectors, engineering being one them. Too bad lobbies will never allow this.
- Qem 5y agoWell, between doctors making $70 a month and being charged 54,000$ for a COVID test in a ER, surely there is a lot of room for adjustement. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/09/30/texas-man-charged-54000-covid-test-hospital/5927347001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/09/30/texas-...
- jbritton 5y agoWow. My whole life I have thought hospital billing was absolutely insane, and this is a great example. I don’t know why a good lawyer hasn’t filed a massive class action lawsuit for billing fraud. Why does the government do nothing about this. I think most people just think the billing is the correct amount, and it seems to me to be off 10x to 100x.