Originally Posted By: Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man
 Originally Posted By: Captain Sammitch
You're overlooking an important factor by taking profit margin out of health care. It's been mentioned before. Who is compensating physicians and other health-care professionals in a socialized system? It virtually guarantees they won't be getting what they're getting now. And who's going to want to spend a decade in med school on student loans they'll have to pay back if they're getting rewarded with shitty government compensation?

well ideally doctors are in it for the job of helping people. i think the greedy ones generally go to cosmetic surgery and not the other more stressful fields.
and i imagine if the system were paid for by the government there would be more government grants and scholarships for med school to compensate.


Will the government also pay for the doctors' malpractice insurance premiums? If so, this program is going to cost a shitload of money. If not, that's another reason for many doctors to pass on the recipients of government run insurance (as there are many doctors who do so now because they don't get much money from them) since it costs an arm and a leg to both become a doctor as well as stay one. Also, I can't help but notice that you continuely rely upon these ideals that may or may not be very well represented in modern society.

whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules.
It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness.
This is true both in politics and on the internet."

Our Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man said: "no, the doctor's right. besides, he has seniority."