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Re:‘Out here, it’s just me’: one doctor for 11,000 square miles by bradleyjg on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @12:13AM (#21121997)
So what’s the problem then? If they have the money to pay the extra costs needed to attract labor to provide the services they want where they choose to live then the system is working perfectly fine, no?

If they don’t have the money they should move, possibly with assistance. I don’t see any case for subsidizing services in places where it really expensive to provide those services. Why that’d be like government grants to rebuild houses on a flood plain that got flooded out.

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Re:‘Out here, it’s just me’: one doctor for 11,000 square miles by HeadsUpHigh on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @09:12AM (#21124914)
I'm not sure what you mean by that but there's a limit to how many more people you are going to attract with more money. Quality of the job in rural areas for doctors is pretty low as you don't get a lot of other specialties to help you and you don't have the same tools available either.
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