Economic Analysis of Medicare for All

Re:Economic Analysis of Medicare for All by AtlasBarfed on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @07:51PM (#18614365)

The cost problem in healthcare is exactly that: many pigs at the trough, and everyone points at the other pig for being the problem.

Healthcare administrators! Drug companies! Device companies! Trial Lawyers! Insurance companies! Doctors (especially specialists)!

They're all the problem, and yes lots of them should make less money. I know cardiologists pulling down 500k+ and that is ridiculous. I can see highly skilled surgeons making that much, but pill pushers?

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Re:Economic Analysis of Medicare for All by ams6110 on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @08:02PM (#18614440)

> I know cardiologists pulling down 500k+ and that is ridiculous. I can see highly skilled surgeons making that much, but pill pushers?

I don't know about you but I'm not willing to be a student until I'm in my mid 30s, working crazy hours, likely accumulating a significant amount of debt along the way, without some kind of a substantial payout on the other side.

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Re:Economic Analysis of Medicare for All by travisoneill1 on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @08:24PM (#18614577)

Which is a good reason to not make doctors spend so many years in school. The Europeans don't and their doctors are just fine.

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Re:Economic Analysis of Medicare for All by jefurii on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @08:41PM (#18614660)

Also a good reason for state-funded higher education.

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Re:Economic Analysis of Medicare for All by naveen99 on Friday December 07, 2018 @11:46PM (#18633982)

Cardiologists aren’t pill pushers. They are interventional radiologists of the heart. They do need lots of skill also.

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