• ATQ@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It gets me the best and brightest compared to you. I, specifically, want someone smarter and more capable than you working on me. Those people cost more than you do. If you want to look for graft in the healthcare industry look at hospital bureaucracy or insurance companies. Skilled workers are a stupid target. Harassing them makes healthcare worse.

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      1 year ago

      It gets me the best and brightest compared to you.

      It does not. 350k salary gets you a completely average doctor. And if the average salary was only 250k we would all still have the same doctors. My doctors are just as good and probably better than yours. And you cannot even chose your own doctors at all unless you have Obamacare. Nobody goes out and hires their own doctors at all lol. You are imagining some ivory tower theory, not talking about the real world of medicine in the USA.

      I, specifically, want someone smarter and more capable than you working on me. Those people cost more than you do.

      Are you hallucinating? Stay with me buddy. I…do…not…work…in…the…medical…industry. And if I did I would charge you more than 350k/year despite being completely unqualified since my time is worth more than that.

      Skilled workers are a stupid target.

      Your Dad is a doctor huh.

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        1 year ago

        You’re clearly missing his point. He’s saying that keeping doctor salaries higher than other fields draws talent to the field of medicine from other fields.

        Your point about not choosing your doctors is largely correct, but once again, the target of that criticism should be insurance companies, not the doctors themselves.