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Doctors deserve to be rich. They do incredibly specialized work where the outcomes are extremely critical, to put it mildly. I don't want doctors performing unn
by SauciestGNU 2y ago
Doctors deserve to be rich. They do incredibly specialized work where the outcomes are extremely critical, to put it mildly. I don't want doctors performing unnecessary treatments to line their pockets, but I don't think we're actually in danger of that.
The difference between a rich doctor and a rich insurance exec is that the doctor helps people, and the insurance exec makes their money withholding necessary care from people, in effect torturing and killing them.
- consteval 2y agoThis is the problem with insurance in general. The incentive of insurance is at direct odds with patients and doctors. It's a tug of war, and even if insurance "loses", it doesn't matter, because you lost trillions of dollars in that tug of war. It's artificial inefficiency caused by privatization, very much a Dark Night burning a mountain of money situation.
- SauciestGNU 2y agoYeah I'm in favor of a single payer system, but I think that's even less likely than adding some guardrails to what we have now.