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Re:Do American doctors get paid too much? by ams6110 on Thursday September 10, 2009 @10:20PM (#816675)
He left out a lot of other stuff. Hospital rooms. Nurses, lab technicians, all the other staff at the hospital/clinic/doctor's office. Other overhead (office rent, equipment leases) on and on.

Liability insurance premiums for malpractice insurance. A huge cost. Enough to drive doctors away from some specialties, such as obstetrics.

There's some overhead in insurance company billing operations, but I've not seen any good evidence that the government can do it for less.

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Re:Do American doctors get paid too much? by Locke1689 on Thursday September 10, 2009 @11:50PM (#816804)
I was curious, so I asked my dad what it was on average. He said that it was about $30,000-$40,000 per year per doctor, but that is highly dependent on the specialty. For surgeons, probably close to $100,000 a year, while probably close to nothing for psychiatrists.
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Re:Do American doctors get paid too much? by trevelyan on Friday September 11, 2009 @08:23PM (#818401)
》 I've not seen any good evidence that the government can do it for less.

France? Any argument against single payer has to cope with the multitude of countries which provide health care better and cheaper to all of their citizens.

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