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From: suzee@imbris.com
conklin wrote:
> "suzeeq" wrote in message
> news:k3d0hc$6te$1@dont-email.me...
>> Dano wrote:
>>
>>> Well we're on the same page about how the professionals get paid. But I
>>> can't agree that is the predominant cause either. I'd rank the insurance
>>> and pharmaceutical companies higher.
>> Yes these are the real reasons 'health' and medical costs are higher. I do
>> think the forced insurance coverage for everyone doesn't solve the problem
>> of high costs. It just makes the insurance companies more profitable, does
>> nothing to truly make the cost affordable for everyone.
>>
>
> Ok, let's make some comarisons here. When I was starting out, I knew a man
> who finished medical school and started as an intern nearby. His startring
> pay as an intern was the same as the chairman of my department, a Ph.D.
> granting department., whose pay was ranked as average at the time. So, a
> generic intern beat out a highly-published academic. It just goes on from
> there. A resident down the street, who was finishing his residency, was
> offered a job paying 8 times the chair salary, and 10 times mine, just to
> start out. Guaranteed. It only goes up from there. These were not
> distinguished MDs. Only generic-types.
I'm not against paying medical personnel what they deserve. It's the
insurance companies and that Drs have to order unneeded tests to cover
themselves if something goes wrong, and that the technical machines that
everyone's "gotta have" that helps drive costs up. As well as the
obscene amounts pharmas get for medications. Many of which are more
dangerous in the side effects than the condition they're supposed to
treat. A lot of health problems can be alleviated in other ways.
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