There is some talk that doctors won’t be doctors if they changed to some single payer since they won’t be paid much, but I can bet nearly everything that if they balanced this with no/limited lawsuits and tort (is it?) reform, doctors will still make bank.
I come from a family of doctors actually and in these places that have low/cost FREE health care rated in the top in the world, the family people I know who are doctors are insanely wealthy. Maybe it was a mix of real estate or business as well, but no one was crying that they weren’t making much to be a doctor.
If anything, I’ve read numerous articles of US doctors having to file bk or hang it up.
That said, my dad was actually a doctor in the US and said if he stayed where we came from, he’d be making tons more bank than where he worked here (large hospital network).
He also never encouraged any of us to be doctors due to limited freedom/power, pay probably due to taxes, no power when under the insurance lobbies, etc…Just seems our system, as great as it sounds, probably isn’t…if people only knew how other people have it.
Also, how many people here would be actually willing to move to a foreign country to live? I think that’s what makes it hard for a lot of American born people to consider that else is out there since they just don’t know.
I know if I wasn’t settled and old now, I wouldn’t be against moving to asia for work since I think that’s where a lot more opportunity is.
The US is getting old/tired (like Europe). There were numerous funny videos on yahoo finance yesterday on how US politics is worst than China since in China, it’s actually a meritocracy where successful government people get more and more responsibility as they move up the leadership chain…Here, we’re left with people like Filner and all the lobbying where after getting elected, it all about raising money to keep your job.
If anyone saw the interview with the Baidu CEO on Bloomberg, it was funny how he said he/they don’t care what the US does anymore since the chinese market is huge already and it seems like they are doing less copying and more creating now.
Before someone say I should just move to China, no way the wife would go for that! so as a middle aged dude, I can just grumble and watch.
