Socialize medicine.
Cap doctors and general surgeons salaries at $75k. Specialty surgeons capped at $165k
Nurses $45k. Sorry, goalie, say goodbye to that sweet house you don’t own 😂
Techs, minimum wage.
Take that you greedy, lying, sonsabitches.
Seems our level of care is about on par with the above pay plan.
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We already have socialized medicine RIGHT NOW! Try to find a doctor running a private practice. The hospital industry has bought them all up and put them all on "the team". All the "teams" are dependent on government payments and subsidies. Thus government run health care. That is called socialism.
They have pushed it to the point socialized might be better?
Which was the the goal.
We have a stupid agreement that my employer refunds half my deductible.
Not the first half either. 50%, they aren't that stupid!
So, after paying $400/month for my premium, I did the paperwork
for the deductible refund. Despite c-pap, and other issues for 4 of us this
year, I paid every single bill out of pocket.
Along with co-pays.
WTF is a co-pay? If I pay once at the doc, and again when the bill comes in.
Ain't a farting co-pays if I pay it all!
The big arguments against(which I agreed with) Hillary Care was
choice and prompt care.
UPMC has monopolized Hospitals in Western Pa.
Started their own insurance, and won't accept other insurance at
their facilities.
Or allow their insurance to be used at competing facilities.
They have forced almost all Docs to turn their private practices over
to UPMC and become employees. By denying them facility privileges.
This has driven many of the most patient care focused docs to
leave the area.
Now we have no choice of insurance co.
Almost no choice in facility,
specialty docs are limited locally. (More than just due to popuation)
Months of waiting to see a specialist.
Where as before a doc could choose to spend 20 minutes with you
And only be paid for 15. Now their boss insists on 10, and with the
electronic systems they monitor it.
Docs in the system can't even make an appointment for a patient
on a call in basis. They have to go through a scheduling system.
We use an unaffiliated group. Through a buy/sell agreement "their"
hospital system is accepted by UPMC. For now.
Their practice is growing rapidly, because people are finding better
care out from under the UPMC thumb.
Honestly, outside of our local monopoly issue, I can't imagine a fix
for our medical system. It's too big, too broken, and has too much
power to fix. Eventually, it will become so bad that government control
will be the answer. (Obama's ultimate goal when he couldn't make it happen)
The only way that will be a good thing,
Is based on how bad it was before they stepped in.
