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JJ
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JJ asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

How would a universal health care plan effect doctors?

Having a government funded universal health care system would have a profound effect on how doctors prepare, and are taught to perform their jobs. For those doctors out there if such a plan was put in place, most likely hindering earning capabilities, would you feel that it hinders your insentive to better yourself, would one become complacent, and would it limit the expansive research being studied for cures?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Doctors will be limited to their earning ability. This will also limit the number of people wanting to put forth the effort and expense of becoming a doctor. Why be a doctor and earn $150,000 if you can be an insurance broker and earn $150,000? Doctors would have to follow a strict policy of managed care. Did you know that when you reach a certain age, you will no longer be allowed to have surgery? Or any life saving procedure. What if that age is 60? This will be a good way for the government to severely curtail those collecting Social Security. Think about it. Not only will care be managed, it will be rationed. It is in Canada. As a Canadian that comes to the U.S. for treatment.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Universal Healthcare would be a disaster of such immense proportion it nauseates me to even think about it. We'd have to import doctors from the Middle East like they have to in Britain.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I read an article recently on the history of medical insurance in the US and was surprised to learn that doctors, and later the AMA, were major opponents of it from the start, because it would interfere with discriminatory fees (charging more to those who could afford more).

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The best ones would move to countries where their services can be bought by what the market determines is a fair price.

    Just like what's happening now with foreign doctors coming here.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think they would be much happier than under the current system where their medical opinions and salaries are undercut by insurance companies. Talk to doctors and nurses, they hate the current system.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    My kin became in a small enterprise, and permit me inform you that they mandatory scientific wellbeing coverage at team expenditures too, yet have been too small to get it. the government btw considers a small enterprise any decrease than 1500 workers. i became noticeably shocked via this as I continually took it to intend approximately 25. Its significant to undergo in innovations that after those rules and regulations take effect they very mostly contain an floor so in case you have decrease than a hundred workers you're no longer lined interior the regulation. maximum small agencies do no longer now grant wellbeing care, and its no longer suited for the better ones to could desire to pass in the process the aggravation, whether they do get a tax deduction for it, and the persons who get the ease do no longer pay taxes on the addition earnings they get as that perk. Me, I pay my own, with placed up tax funds, so in effect, i'm subsidizing the business enterprise and their workers. to no longer point out the coverage business enterprise. So do no longer worry too lots approximately it, whether somewhat small agencies could desire to pay, they could deduct it out of their enterprise taxes. in comparison to me.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    that's one of the big hurdles that is created by socialism, I mean universal health care. no one will be able to answer that question until the system frame work is set and even then it's speculation at best.

  • Don W
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I have personally spoke with my doctors and their staffs who are all pro universal healthcare and really don't care for insurance companies and HMOs

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