Half of all adults in the world have less than $2,300 in wealth (2016)

Re:Half of all adults in the world have less than $2,300 in ... by sol_remmy on Thursday June 07, 2018 @02:18PM (#17258613)

America can't afford universal health care - doctors get paid too much. The average doctor's salary here is over 300k USD. The average doctors salary in Europe is almost one-third of that..

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Re:Half of all adults in the world have less than $2,300 in ... by aggie on Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:58PM (#17260205)

Doctor salary accounts for only 8.5% of healthcare costs in the US, lower than most other Western countries. https://jacksonhealthcare.com/media-room/news/md-salaries-as...

Germany: 15%

Australia: 11.6%

France 11%

UK: 9.7%

US: 8.5%

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Re:Half of all adults in the world have less than $2,300 in ... by notyourwork on Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:47PM (#17260109)

Here implying I don’t live here. I really don’t think doctor salaries is the problem with outrageous health car cost. I could be wrong but seems like admin overhead and over prescribing treatment is a big problem from my small point of view.

Edit: also people wanting it and the financials of it being practical are entirely coupled together. My point was I don’t see how someone can not be for the idea of health care for all.

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