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I still have incredible respect for doctors. I could never do what they do (I’m way too squeamish). And truthfully, they should be earning more than lawyers and investment bankers. However, the healthcare system here totally sucks. I had a doctor a couple of years ago that started examining me and then realized I changed insurance (even though I already told his staff this) and, even though he still accepted my new plan, refused to continue the routine physical and basically threw me out because he was tired of dealing with my new HMO and the long waits he experienced in getting paid by them. We basically ended up in a screaming match in the waiting room with horrified patients looking on. (At least I changed out of the baby blue paper dress and back into my clothes).
bxgrl,
the Heritage is a conservative think tank no doubt. but one that does due diligence in analyzing the issues and giving an alternative opinion to the one being forced on the public without open debate in the baised major media. Am I to rely on the “objectivity” of the NYTimes? a paper that has all but stated it’s opposition to all things conservative? I think not.
Insertsnappynamehere,
don’t be so offended. reality hurts. I am giving you the facts as they stand. your anecdotal thoughts, while deserving of our concern, do not mitigate the enormous fact that in this world, you are delt a hand and must deal with it in your own manner.
There are numerous safety nets in our society. the fact that your friend has managed to fall through them all does not give cause to an indictment of our entire society. Has she considered moving out of state, I have.
Please to not take the offended liberal tone. Your life is ultimately in your own hands, not in the goverment’s.
Arkady…that’s a steep price. If that’s for ‘somewhat decent’ it scares me to think what my friend must have been looking at that would have only cost her 300-450. Ouch.
ditto- we used to. Doctors in this country were dedicated, compassionate and worried more about their patients, than their bottom line. Just seems to me after the insurance companies got so big, everything changed- and not for the better.
Private health insurance in a somewhat decent HMO costs $1100. a month in NYC. Even though you’re younger, that gets you fewer benefits than someone over 65 on Medicare.
There are fewer millionaire doctors in countries with nationalized health care. Quite frankly doctor’s salaries in this country are way over the top. One would hope that people enter healthcare for reasons other than money, but in the end, if you are in America and you are good at biological sciences, medicine offers both a respectable career, offers near 100% employment and pays a huge amount (not at the beginning, admittedly). I wonder if we’d have the same doctors if the salaries were more moderate.
I still have incredible respect for doctors. I could never do what they do (I’m way too squeamish). And truthfully, they should be earning more than lawyers and investment bankers. However, the healthcare system here totally sucks. I had a doctor a couple of years ago that started examining me and then realized I changed insurance (even though I already told his staff this) and, even though he still accepted my new plan, refused to continue the routine physical and basically threw me out because he was tired of dealing with my new HMO and the long waits he experienced in getting paid by them. We basically ended up in a screaming match in the waiting room with horrified patients looking on. (At least I changed out of the baby blue paper dress and back into my clothes).
Agreed with Bxgrl’s 11:47am post!
The problem is our salaries are NOT matching the rate of inflation at all
bxgrl,
the Heritage is a conservative think tank no doubt. but one that does due diligence in analyzing the issues and giving an alternative opinion to the one being forced on the public without open debate in the baised major media. Am I to rely on the “objectivity” of the NYTimes? a paper that has all but stated it’s opposition to all things conservative? I think not.
Insertsnappynamehere,
don’t be so offended. reality hurts. I am giving you the facts as they stand. your anecdotal thoughts, while deserving of our concern, do not mitigate the enormous fact that in this world, you are delt a hand and must deal with it in your own manner.
There are numerous safety nets in our society. the fact that your friend has managed to fall through them all does not give cause to an indictment of our entire society. Has she considered moving out of state, I have.
Please to not take the offended liberal tone. Your life is ultimately in your own hands, not in the goverment’s.
Arkady…that’s a steep price. If that’s for ‘somewhat decent’ it scares me to think what my friend must have been looking at that would have only cost her 300-450. Ouch.
Not really defending doctors but the nature of the legal system also causes their malpractice insurance to be practically unaffordable.
ditto- we used to. Doctors in this country were dedicated, compassionate and worried more about their patients, than their bottom line. Just seems to me after the insurance companies got so big, everything changed- and not for the better.
ditto, Ditto 🙂
Private health insurance in a somewhat decent HMO costs $1100. a month in NYC. Even though you’re younger, that gets you fewer benefits than someone over 65 on Medicare.
There are fewer millionaire doctors in countries with nationalized health care. Quite frankly doctor’s salaries in this country are way over the top. One would hope that people enter healthcare for reasons other than money, but in the end, if you are in America and you are good at biological sciences, medicine offers both a respectable career, offers near 100% employment and pays a huge amount (not at the beginning, admittedly). I wonder if we’d have the same doctors if the salaries were more moderate.