Re: Why I dislike where Pres Obama is going

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On Sep 10, 4:58 pm, The BorgMan <m...@xxxxxx> wrote:
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On Sep 10, 1:49 pm, "tom_sawye...@xxxxxxxxx"
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On Sep 10, 10:52 am, Tom Enright <freddy_ha...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

no profit for insurance companies (savings),

Remove the motivation to provide better care?  Yes, that will
make care better.

Does it provide better care?

Let me ask you ... is mia going into the medical profession
because ...

a) he has a specific talent that will enable him to further
advance medical science,
b) he has a gift and a sincere desire to help those in need to
better his community and that you would be a client of his if you
needed such care, or
c) he sees a virtual goldmine in not doing very much but making a
lot of money under the current system?

Let me ask you something.  Do you think we have the greatest
teachers in the world in our country from K-12?

Some of them.

Do you think keeping teacher salaries low where they are at
insuring that those that "Love" teaching is improving our
education?

Based on the massive oversupply of teachers in the state I live in,
yes.

When 400 qualified applicants show up to apply for a single job -
salary ain't keeping teachers out of the profession.

The combination of low salary and headaches that teachers have to
deal with make the job too high stress to keep the best people in
it.  

...but most of the best teachers are teachers. The best teachers are
those best at teaching, not those wiht the most knowledge or
learning.

Bear in mind that to get the medical degree in the first place,
there is a fair amount of sacrifice that someone has to make.

In the United States.

In a lot of countries with socialized medicine, not so much.

Take away the
salary and you provide one of the few perks that keep some people
going.  It isn't that those people don't WANT to help people and
that isn't their goal, but it's a pretty thankless job at times,
and not having to worry about bills on top of the job is an
important perk that if removed, will take a lot of good doctors out
of the profession.

...and there is no reasonable area between "having to worry about
bills" and "filthy stinking rich"?


Are there any General practitioners that are filthy stinking rich?

Seriously, I'm asking.

Sure.

Are they rich from being a general practitioner? Probably not. They're
probably rich from owning an imaging center that they steer patients to
use, being a "consultant" at a physical therapy center they steer
patients to, and saving cash from the massive perks thrown at them by
drug and other medical companies.

Plus a lot of them would probably be more wealthy, if it weren't for the
bureaucratic hassle of dealing with 15 different insurance companies.

Truth is though - in general, GPs should make more than they do, and
specialists should make less... and the government should be strongly
encouraging (through monetary means) an increase in the number of GPs.

--
Aaron
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