Isn't the shortage of doctors the main problem with Canada's health-care system because they lost many Doctors to the USA where they don't have to treat poor patients but only the patients whom they choose?
Can the same be said of Britain India and a number of other countries where doctors aren't allowed to extort "your money or your life" profits from frightened sick patients?
Look around in your USA hospitals, clinics etc. and see how many doctors are from India, England and other such countries?
Many of them, like in India, were educated in medicine by their socialist government, and they then abandoned their country and fellow-citizens for M-O-N-E-Y in the USA.
2007-06-30 17:39:39 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Greed and choice over humanity and fairness? That is no deal. As usual, the poor and helpless get screwed by the very people who should be helping them. Socialized medicine is the way to go.
2007-06-30 17:46:42 · answer #1 · answered by Wascally Wadical 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I can tell you are not a physician. There is little money to be had in this country anymore. Gone are the 4 work day weeks, long lunches and so on. Medicare and HMO's have crippled the earning potential of doctors in this country. The insurance alone is staggering for all medical professionals. So they did not leave their countries for profit. They left for a better quality of life.
As for Canadian doctors, I feel they left because the health care system over there is flawed. Treatment options are not available like in the US, and the quality of care is not even close to that in the US. Also if you are a young doctor wanting to work with the latest and greatest in your chosen field, you then have no choice but to come to the US.
2007-06-30 17:49:49 · answer #2 · answered by Mike R 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I used to sell products to doctors. My route covered all of Minnesota. I used to get so many doors opened by discussing the period of my life when I lived in Canada. Almost every doctor I spoke to came from Canada.
When I moved back to Oklahoma I always mentioned my trip to India with my Uncle. He is from India. In Oklahoma I think every doctor is from India.
It is a good example of why socialized medicine is a failure. Either the doctors will find a new country to make money in or all of the bright people will go into different fields that pay more.
2007-06-30 17:47:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I disagree with you that American doctors are profit-rich. American doctors are overworked and obligated by a corrupt government to provide free operations to those who don't have health care on threat of lawsuit. Might I suggest that American health care ISN'T the worst in the world?
Americans have a lot of resentment and anger towards doctors because they don't know what it's like to be a doctor in America.
2007-06-30 19:35:33 · answer #4 · answered by jfeucht82 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A great number of Doctors in Great Britain are from India or Pakistan. I have many relatives their, during one converstion my cousins told me that they sometimes rather see the nurses because they could understand them better since many of the nurses are British and speak clearer English.
2007-06-30 17:47:11 · answer #5 · answered by scarlettt_ohara 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Shhhhh, that's the dirty little secret of socialized medicine. Crush the human spirit and that's what happens.
2007-06-30 17:59:40 · answer #6 · answered by RP McMurphy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I wonder if they would go back if the USA went to social medicine?
there's no where else that has private healthcare that would be worth them going to...
2007-06-30 17:50:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Doctors go where the money is because it is the instinct of survival.
2007-06-30 17:47:00 · answer #8 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Probable,but we are loosing good Doctors here because of the high insurance rates they have to pay for suits,etc.Allot of these suits are being paid to the illegals.
2007-06-30 17:47:37 · answer #9 · answered by ♥ Mel 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋