If the government takes over healthcare what do you think will happen to the salaries of Nurses and Doctors?

Will our pay go up, down, or stay the same?

So what if I am a doctor..I went to schoool and got an education. I help people everyday and help save lives why should my salary go down.

Hold your horses, people. That is exactly what Hillary was trying to do with her now infamous health care task force. Not only would doctors and nurses be paid less, the plan even would allow the government to dictate what specialty a doctor could pursue.

Why do you think the whole 900 page monster and all the notes and minutes of meetings are being withheld from public scrutiny in the Clinton Library? I was around back then, I remember what was in it.

There was also a lifetime cap on benefits. If someone had a horrible debilitating disease that required expensive surgery, medication and hospitalization they could quickly reach that cap. Doctors were forbidden form accepting any payment outside of the government system and people were forbidden form paying outside of the system. So if that poor patient was in the hospital and reached his lifetime benefit cap, I guess they would just wheel him out and dump him on the street. No medical professional would be allowed to treat him.

It was that draconian. Be careful what you vote for, you just might get it.

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The government is not going to take healthcare over. The candidates (Hillary) is proposing government insurance.

down. insurance costs will go up. perscriptions will go up. doctors and nurses will see less and less of that money.

Probably go down. Nationalized health care leads to shortages, then rationing, and wages plummet.

stay the same, but when is the government gonna take over the healthcare industry? No politican has called for government take over of the health care industry.

In the case of government take over, do you really thing the politicans would loose so many supporters by cutting their pay? People in government jobs are usually pretty well off. even garbage collectors.

Are you suggesting doctors and nurses are in it for the pay only, no, it couldn't be.

Yeah, sparky. You are a doctor....

sorry 'bout that, Dr.


British and French doctors are the highest paid in Eurpoe. Canadian doctors as well

does anyone realize that the taxes you would pay for a universal healthcare are about the same as what you pay for Social Security? How does is that worse than paying $500 a month in premiums for a family?

doctors and nurses do very well here

I think if it got any worse they would just stop being doctors and nurses, so I think the pay scale has pretty much bottomed out, as dictated by the market place dynamics. If the government lowered the pay scale anymore, it would defeat the healthcare system entirely. It's bad enough as it is.

So the worst scenario I see is that it might end up costing more than planned.

the doctors salaries need to go down. WAY down.

your pay will go down as each one of us will be expected to pay our share and Clinton will garnish your pay check to pay for it

It's a well known fact that time and time again. Anytime the Government runs anything it becomes less efficient and goes straight to hell.

Well when push comes to shove, the reimbursments of government insurance will go down for doctors as we have seen with medicare as costs have gone up. This means that doctors have to squeez more people into a smaller time, deminishing the quality of care, and some will just stop taking new medicare patients.

This is the problem with any proposal that does nothing to reduce costs and only shifts the costs to the tax payer. The higher cost trend will continue and neither democrat is proposing anything that will do something about that. They just dotn want to tell you that the result will be rationing liek what we are beginning to see with medicare and what Europe and Canada have been experiencing for years.

Hopefully they will take home more money, as malpractice insurance should then become cheaper.

What most Americans really want, and they say so in poll after poll, is a 'Canadian style' single payer plan. Under that plan, doctors and hospitals and clinics all remain private and commercial and profit-making, but the govt. handles the insurance. This means that commercial insurance companies don't have an incentive to insure only healthy people, so everyone is insured, everyone is in the same pool. There are tremendous savings to be had in a system like this. In fact this is how Medicare works, and if we simply expanded Medicare to cover everyone in the country we would save hundreds of billions of dollars a year in the US.

The thing is, this is not government 'taking over' healthcare, just health insurance.

To see how this would affect the pay of doctors and nurses, you only have to look at Canada. Medical professionals are highly respected there, and well paid.

Here in the US, doctors used to be mostly independent but today most of them work for HMOs owned by the insurance industry. In Canada they are independent, or belong to small offices owned by several doctors. So instead of salaried employees they are businessmen! They have more control over their working conditions and how they practice their craft, for instance they don't have to clear certain procedures and treatments with insurance company bean-counters. I would guess they don't do as well as -some- doctors here (certain specialties) but better than most.

I have continually wondered why the medical profession isn't outraged at the notion of universal healthcare.

In the US, professionals start their careers making peanuts (and working government jobs) and gradually work into private practice and big money when they've earned reputations for competence.

So, what will happen to competence, is my question.