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It’s a societal good as a whole, so yes, societies should invest in them. Example: not everyone becomes a doctor. But society needs doctors. Having affordable
by thehappypm 4y ago
It’s a societal good as a whole, so yes, societies should invest in them.
Example: not everyone becomes a doctor. But society needs doctors. Having affordable pre-med college programs benefits everyone, even though only doctors directly make income from the program.
- willcipriano 4y agoHow about in exchange we cap their rate of pay so that society as a whole can benefit from their affordable services?
- thehappypm 4y agoI’d rather lower the barrier of entry than punish the doctors. If it was easier to become a medical professional, doctors wouldn’t need to be paid so highly. We’re actually seeing a trend now of more people going into PA school which could help.
- derbOac 4y ago"easier to become a medical professional" rather than only "easier to become a physician" is key. There needs to be a lot more competition in healthcare service provision period. There are a lot of things that could be made over the counter (e.g., drug deregulation), and a lot of services that could be provided by other types of providers (e.g, pharmacists, other professions that don't even exist now).
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoAnd if you do that you won't have enough doctors. Many countries suffer shortage of doctors. If you want to do that, why don't you start by capping pay of CEOs, there seems to be no country on earth with shortage of CEOs
- willcipriano 4y agoPhysicians aren't the ones having trouble paying off their degrees (certainly not in America, that healthcare spending goes somewhere). We may have a district lack of doctored art historians but I think we will survive. Alternatively they could pay their own way.
- colinmhayes 4y agoPay is not what is capping the number of doctors in this country. Only 41% of med school applicants are accepted. The bottleneck is the number of residencies. The government could fix this by increasing the stipend residencies receive, but I'm afraid they've been captured by the AMA.
- ryan93 4y agoAffordable doesn’t mean your plumber pays for it. My brother took pre med classes at a community college for 400 a pop.
- pnutjam 4y agoHah, my daughter is a state college student. She needs one class to avoid taking an extra semester with housing costs and all that fun stuff. It's some sort of pre-requisite and her advisor messed up. It's $600 to take it this summer. No financial aid since she's just taking on CC class.