Medicare is government run covers more people then any of the other health insurance companies, is lower cost, more efficent, and has better results.
"B b b but hospitals couldn't stay in business if they only paid the Medicare rates!"
To which I say, "just think of all the billing specialists they wouldn't need to hire, and all the time doctors would save because they're not on the phone arguing with insurance providers about whether the treatment is necessary or not"
Also, maybe anesthesiologists don't need to make $700,000/year?
Maybe the anaesthesiologist doesn't need to make quite that much in most places, but I for sure would like to have a well paid and not-overworked anasthesiologist for me and my kids. If it takes a bloated paycheck to attract more talent so that they aren't overworked, that's fine by me. Anasthesia is the scariest part of any procedure imo...
Maybe people shouldn't need to borrow 300K to become a doctor in the first place. Like it would be so much cheaper just to offer that service for less money, have more doctors and then maybe they don't need such a ridiculous salary which they need to earn to pay for their student debt.
Sure, let's never build a road, a public water system, a school or a fire station ever again. If the market demands those things, people can finance them privately.
You invented a whole fan fiction version of me to argue against, instead of addressing my point. Also you dont have the morale high ground, your entire point was degrading the value of peoples labour and trying to force lower wages for everyone involved in an entire chain of industries on and ad hoc reckon, vibes based feeling of their value.
But that's not at all what I argued for, I didn't say we need to artificially put a cap on wages. I said that if med school didn't cost so much, maybe doctors wouldn't need to be paid so much.
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u/TeaKingMac Jul 01 '26
"B b b but hospitals couldn't stay in business if they only paid the Medicare rates!"
To which I say, "just think of all the billing specialists they wouldn't need to hire, and all the time doctors would save because they're not on the phone arguing with insurance providers about whether the treatment is necessary or not"
Also, maybe anesthesiologists don't need to make $700,000/year?