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Re:A Guaranteed Income for Every American by analog31 on Saturday June 04, 2016 @10:41PM (#11839371)
Are salaries a good measure of the income of doctors? I've read that more than half of doctors are self employed, and I suspect that their ownership stake in medical businesses produces a good portion of their incomes.
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Re:A Guaranteed Income for Every American by chimeracoder on Saturday June 04, 2016 @11:15PM (#11839458)
It's the other way around. As of recently, the majority of doctors are salaried (employed), not in private practice.

The numbers I cite correspond to the practice revenues, but as much as half of what doctors in private practice receive in reimbursements goes to practice expenses and insurance.

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Re:A Guaranteed Income for Every American by analog31 on Saturday June 04, 2016 @11:34PM (#11839503)
That's an interesting change. It wasn't too many years ago that my employer-provided health insurance was through a doctor-owned provider.
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