Re: Can State-Run Health Care Conform To Halachic Guidelines?

In <73b99a75-0106-4432-a1d4-2ce741e9e9a5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Eliyahu <lrooff@xxxxxxxxx> writes:


As far as halachic guidelines, those issues can arise in privately-run
hospitals and clinics just as easily as in public ones. The reality is
that this is simply another sort of fear-mongering by the same part of
the medical establishment that has been railing about "socialized
medicine" for decades now to protect their high incomes. See,
http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/canada.asp for some fact
checking.

Don't forget that by the time most doctors have finished their medical
training and are getting ready to actually start earning some of those
"high incomes," and maybe begin paying on the potentially hundreds of
thousands of dollars of debt they've incurred to buy that education,
meanwhile their high school buddies who joined the fire department are
well over halfway to retirement on a nice pension.

Certain specialists like orthopedic surgeons make tons of money. Many
other doctors, like pediatricians, don't.

Also, regarding the VA, it's not a really good model because you're taking
taxes from the entire United States and using that money to pay for the
health care of 10% of the population. The economics change considerably
when you need to support 100% of the population from that same tax base.

Would you be willing to, say, move to Applachia and dig ditches for
minimum wage if the government told you that sort of labor was needed? If
not, then why require doctors to do the equivalent?

I'm certainly not suggesting the current medical system is perfect, not by
any means, but I think the scare-mongering is coming from the side
demanding radical change.

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