PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum - View Single Post - 5 myths about other countries' health care

lutzTD · #6 08-25-2009, 09:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DieselAddict

They did. Watch the documentary. It does cover the financial issues facing those countries' health care. That's really their only problem. Hospitals are frequently cash-strapped over there whereas here in the US it's the patients who are cash-strapped and the US is the only developed country where citizens go bankrupt because of medical bills.

but if the doctors quit, does it matter. there is no perfect system, but at least the system we have rewards doctors for hard work and doesnt marginalize their efforts by mandating a pay ceiling far below what should be commanded by their education.

what I truly would like to see is a simplification of the current system's paperwork. I saw a report where a doctor had 100 patients and had to have a staff of 8 to maintain the insurance paperwork. thats just rediculous. her take home was on the order of 70-80K by the time she paid staff, and then insurance for malpractice takes a big chunk of that. to be honest I think the US is driving our best and brightest into the practice of law rather than medicine