exactly. draft them all into the army. pay them what we pay enlisted members of the armed forces. call it a day.
what could go wrong?
Frist, founder of HCA isn’t giving away free health care from their facilities unless it is government mandated to recieve Medicare/Medicaid payment. You can bet your bottom dollar. I’m sick of being told what to do by elite pos.
Oops - I forget - they will be exempted from Obamacare (but then all the good docs will retire and they'll still be in the same boat).
Flip this on its head and ask back -
Why would anyone become a healthcare provider if they can just go on welfare for a better return on effort?
100% of ones wage taken is slavery. At what percentage does it become freedom?
Despite health care costs exploding as a physician we have not seen ANY increase in reimbursement for years.
I appreciate the thesis of the article. After all, if healthcare is a right, then physicians can be forced to provide care for free, just like I can be forced to give up my paycheck to pay for someone else’s care.
There’s not enough discussion of what rights really are when the GOP opposes Obamacare.
When your child needs brain surgery, your spine needs to be rebuilt, your mother’s faltering heart needs to be stopped and reconstructed - who wants to go with the lowest bidder?
“Dr.” Frist, you seem to believe that your fellow doctors are enriching themselves much too much.
Do you believe that a steroid product that has just signed a $22,000,000 5 year contract is “self-eniching?”
Do you think a plastic bosomed Hollywood type is worth $3,500,000 for the making of a single movie?
Do you think the CEO of the insurance company that governs doctor’s payments is really worth that $1,500,000 per year.
I really do not have to ask those question, I know the answers already
To be frank, I truly question and doubt your sense of values.
Controlling doctors' fees and their methods of treatment, and thereby thoroughly bureaucratizing the field, ultimately make medicine unattractive as a profession and deter talented individuals from entering it.Cutting their fees is a good way to cut the supply of doctors just when the demand for their services are increasing. Smart move. Not.
Communists want doctors to get 3-4 times the pay of janitors. Just like in the soviet union. Look it up.
“Elimination of fee-for-servive healthcare within 5 years”?
Whoa nelly.
“Eloi....”
As my tagline says, socialism is slavery.
One thing I learned last year when I had surgery for cancer is that the doctor makes relative peanuts on the deal.
In my case about $3500 out of $65,000 total bill.
Frankly I was quite surprised.
So doctors could work for free without making a large impact on the total cost, at least in that case.
Frist sold out conservative principles years ago....This group of nattering nabobs delude themselves and provide fodder for the ‘single payer’ nightmare of Europe and the Soviet Union (oops I mean Russia).
We must fight back hard against this type of nonsense. We waited too long on O care and are now trying to catch up
To say this is the creme de la creme of elitists would be understating the extremely obvious.
If Congress has authority to establish a minimum wage for certain classes of employment, it certainly has authority to establish a maximum wage.
Why not just establish a maximum wage of, say, $50/hour for the entire healthcare industry?
Fewer and fewer people will want to engage on the supply side of this industry, and shortages will naturally occur. However, healthcare is unlike other industries in that current shortages are automatically resolved by unsatisfied market demand: that is, patients die off. Voila! Herein lies the ultimate solution to the entitlements problems.
This same argument should apply to politicians, police, fire and all government workers.
There is your problem, right there. My husband was in private practice and is now in academia, Those who have never been in private practice have no clue where the money in their paychecks come from, at least the liberals, and they are in the majority. During the Hillarycare debacle one of his colleagues was on her task force. He described this person as a trust fund baby who felt entitled and was clueless to the realities of reimbursement. Just the type of person Hillary would deem an expert.