Re: wait times. I get that from the number of complaints I have heard from both RL friends and online acquaintences about how long they have to wait to see a specialist. I *get* that you didn't in your case. I also *get* that it is an infrastructure problem.
But. One of the big reasons we have so many doctors and so many hospitals is that you can make so much money at it. Isn't that one of the reasons your docs are headed down here? So remove that incentive to become rich, or at least extremely well off, and you are going to lose a lot of future doctors. There are not a lot of people willing to work for the government, number one, and even fewer who are willing to work at a very set wage. Especially when they can go free market and make a lot more money. So a lot of docs will quit being docs becasue they don't want to deal with the government in their pocket, and a lot more won't even go to med school. And we'll be in the same place as Canada with having too few doctors.
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Date: 2007-01-17 07:46 pm (UTC)But. One of the big reasons we have so many doctors and so many hospitals is that you can make so much money at it. Isn't that one of the reasons your docs are headed down here? So remove that incentive to become rich, or at least extremely well off, and you are going to lose a lot of future doctors. There are not a lot of people willing to work for the government, number one, and even fewer who are willing to work at a very set wage. Especially when they can go free market and make a lot more money. So a lot of docs will quit being docs becasue they don't want to deal with the government in their pocket, and a lot more won't even go to med school. And we'll be in the same place as Canada with having too few doctors.