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Would Free National Health Care decrease the salary of doctors, pharmacist, therapist, nurses, etc?


Would Free National Health Care decrease the salary of doctors, pharmacist, therapist, nurses, etc?

Probably because it does not work anywhere it is tried. Doctors make FAR LESS in those countries than doc's here--and ours have to pay ridiculous sums in malpractice insurance, huge student loans, etc.

Specifically in the US the Ponzi scheme of Medicare tries to balance itself on the backs of doctors:
"That dark cloud lurking over the shoulder of every Massachusetts physician is Medicare. If Congress does not act, doctors' payments from Medicare will be cut by about 5 percent annually, beginning next year through 2012, creating a financial hailstorm that would wreak havoc with already strained practices.

Cumulatively, the proposed cuts represent a 31 percent reduction in Medicare reimbursement. If the cuts are adjusted for practice-cost inflation, the American Medical Association says Medicare payment rates to physicians in 2013 would be less than half of what they were in 1991."
http://www.massmed.org/AM/Template.cfm?S...

How would it increase it?

No!

IDK....I do think the quality would go DOWN...as it has in some other countries.

If you take out the middlemen (i.e. the insurance companies) then the cost saving could actually be applied to the salaries of doctors, pharmacists, therapists, nurses, etc. but you have to look at conservatives real agenda.

Private insurance companies and their investors are the reason for such high medical care charges today.

Conservatives want to use the government to distribute income upward to higher paid workers, business owners, and investors. They support the establishment of rules and structures that have this effect. First and foremost, conservatives support nanny state policies that have the effect of increasing the supply of less-skilled workers (thereby lowering their wages), while at the same time restricting the supply of more highly educated professional employees (thereby raising their wages).

This issue is very much at the center of determining who wins and who loses in the modern economy. If government policies ensure that specific types of workers (e.g. doctors, lawyers, economists) are in relatively short supply, then they ensure that these workers will do better than the types of workers who are plentiful. It is also essential to understand that there is direct redistribution involved in this story. If restricting the supply of doctors raises the wages of doctors, then all the non-doctors in the country are worse off, just as if the government taxed all non-doctors in order to pay a tax credit to doctors. Higher wages for doctors mean that everyone in the country will be forced to pay more for health care. As conservatives fully understand when they promote policies that push down wages for large segments of the country鈥檚 work force, lower wages for others means higher living standards for those who have their wages or other income protected.

Conservatives don鈥檛 only rely on the nanny state to keep the wages of professionals high, they want the nanny state to intervene through many different channels to make sure that income is distributed upward. For example, conservatives want the government to outlaw some types of contracts, such as restricting the sort of contingency-fee arrangements that lawyers make with clients when suing major corporations (conservatives call this 鈥渢ort reform鈥?. This nanny state restriction would make it more difficult for people to get legal compensation from corporations that have damaged their health or property.

http://www.conservativenannystate.org/cn...

first off, it would not be free. the impact on salary is impossible to determine with certainty.

No. The reason a doctor's salary is so high is because they are very likely to get sued.

maybe it might because if no jobs and people are low income and cant afford health care.so if we need medical attention we can afford it i think they get payed less then usual unless a president or a movie star and etc people that have money need treatment they can afford to pay what ever so i think it all depend on who is being treat for medical care.

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