What effect will Universal Health Care have on doctors salaries?

Answer 1

Only one Mercedes Benz, and the second car will be a Cadillac! It would be great for America's health if more doctors would practice alternative medicine, and naturopathic physicians would increase in numbers. Organized mainstream medicine and the huge parmaceutical drug cartels with their toxic drugs, constitute the greatest fraud ever perpetrated against the American people and their health. More money is wasted on conventional medicine and toxic pharmaceutical drugs in this country than any other on the planet. The U.S.A. has the worst health of any nation in the world, with life expectancy rated 27th in the world. We urgently need real doctors who understand nutrition and alternative methods of treatment rather than prescribing some toxic,synthetic drug which causes more medical problems, and needlessly kills over 200,000 victims each year. The number of fraudulent surgeries are astronomical, and the conventional doctors operate, (no pun intended) with impunity. The phamaceutical drug companies even control the curriculum in the medical schools, ensuring that doctors do not learn about nutrition and alternative methods. The bottom line is conventional medicine and the pharmaceutical drug companies do not want a healthy nation, as that would be disasterous to their money racket.

Answer 2

It may be called universal healthcare but it will not be free, all programs must have cash flow too survive. Now look at our population at 300 million and figure $50 per person and I believe that is $15 billion that should come in per month and most people don't go to the Doctor but once or twice a year so there will be plenty of money to pay the Doctors well, especially when you merge Veterans health and medicare, medicaid and all the programs into one deal you will lower cost. I believe we will end up with a 2 tier system because even if you create a universal healthcare system you cannot make those who don't want too be in it participate, just like you can't make a Doctor work in public service if he wants his own private practice, that would be communism and people will want their freedom.

Answer 3

Salaries and hours worked will go down. There won't be much reason for anyone to spend the time, effort and money in getting an education to be a doctor. Same applies for hospitals. There will be no new hospitals or clinics built unless it is for the private pay clients. Those will be the rich people that will not wait in line with the rest of us. Not only will the care be rationed but it will be controlled. When Grandma has a heart attack, you will find that she is too old for any treatment. That is what no one realizes right now. They think FREE. The government will issue all kinds of ultimatims like your weight, no smoking, etc or you don't get any healthcare. This is truly a horrible socialist program. If we get it, remember this post.

Answer 4

There will no longer be any competition in Health Care. Salaries will suffer. Government-mandated procedures will reduce doctor flexibility and lead to poor patient care.

First, there will be less incentive for people to spend the money and the time to become a doctor. Second, doctors will be less motivated and less likely to seek bigger and better treatments.

Just because Americans are uninsured doesn't mean they can't receive health care; nonprofits and government-run hospitals provide services to those who don't have insurance, and it is illegal to refuse emergency medical service because of a lack of insurance.

Universal Healthcare was a bad idea in the 90's and is still a bad idea today.

Answer 5

Same as now, but will have more customers. the upper tier doctors will not accept insurance. If you go to them they will not charge you say $10,000 for burning nerves in your neck, but maybe $3,000. Then you file with your insurance and they pay only what they have agreed to pay all provider, say $1,600.

So what you have is folks with money, like now getting serve done and then submitting and paying more, but what they want.

the rest will end up waiting longer as it is werre they take the medicasid, medicare and HMO plans. These will be in the sam ejgroup and then you have the others they pay as you go and then you file.

So for a cold if you don't mind waiting you can go to a regular office or go to the other type and get out faster, that's what it will be and it's like that now in most areas if they have the three types, if not then the ones without it will become that way.

Also the hospital, instead of charging Joe Smith $28,000 for a week stay will now only be able to charge the same as what the HMO would pay or $5,000.

It will all work out, "trust me I am not a doctor"!

Answer 6

Considering how much time & money is involved in becoming a doctor, I believe people will opt for other career fields that would still be operating under capitalism.
Doctors, nurses, etc. will have only be paid so much for services (very little), which in turn will cut down on the high tech equipment they have now. The quality of our care will plummet.

Answer 7

All we can do is look at history.

What medicaid and medicare pay is mandated by the government, and it isn't what is billed, rather it is much less. So much less, that the rest of us have to make up the difference, with unreasonably high fees to see a doctor, 160.00 for a 10 minute visit to my doctor.

Nurses come here from Canada and Britain in order to make higher saleries, because the NHS in their countries pay much less.
I think that the indicators are that saleries would go down. When saleries go down, the pool of available talent goes down too.
Perhaps we would have to do what they did in Britain and reduce the qualifications to practice medicine, Doctors in Britain have Bachelors degrees, in order to have enough practicioners

Answer 8

good question the rates for treatment would probably go down being the govt would negotiate them -but they would be seeing more people who dont have healthcare today -honestly affordable healthcare is what americans need which would make our system universal if it was affordable - hospitals should not be able to merge or go public because I believe healthcare should not be a "growth" based industry and the bottom line should not be the most important thing on a healthcare providers mind -but to offset this a new kind of security would need to be issued -like tax free bonds with a guaranteed (like a t-bill)rate of return(backed by the govt) which would be set at the time it was issued this way the "rich "would be investing in our healthcare system getting a tax free return on their dollars but at the same time helping to control costs -

Answer 9

wasn't one of the purposes of nafta to equalize wages across the north american continent? probably hasn't happened yet with all of the immigration from the south and all the jobs still going south.

already we have a huge influx of foreign doctors. hasn't anyone noticed the ethnicity of motel, party store owners, etc? the medical field is undergoing the same thing. listening to two doctors discuss a patient in arabic(?) is weird.

salaries across the country will decrease, i imagine. i assume that they will still make salaries that are proportionate to other occupations. a four year college degree is not the gold mine that it used to be. so.....

Answer 10

Salaries would come down, however, they will not be cutting costs for charity cases or giving away free care for others, therefore, with a constant income, I believe they would stay about the same, and with universal health, school would also not cost them their fist born, so more Doctors will be able to practice. Makes sense, huh?