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Originally Posted by dinopoker
You say this, yet bizarrely doctor salaries in UHC countries remain quite high. In fact I have a friend who is a doctor here in Canada and he just bought a house worth well over $1 million. He's just a GP too.
Is he now house poor? Bachelor? Location more specific than "Canada"? These things matter.
My wife and I could technically qualify for a million dollar home, but we'd be fools to buy one, and where I live, that would be far more house than I knew what to do with. If I was in SoCal, a million dollars doesn't even buy my current house.
What is your monthly contribution via taxation though? That has to be factored in. If not you, then someone else is paying for it. Great success, in that case.
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Originally Posted by BOIDS
dunno what you mean by copay
your two options here are
A) wait 13 days, pay 0 quid
B) wait 0 days, pay 55 quid
i have always picked option A on my visits
That makes sense. Do you know if it was like that from the beginning? Keeping people from treating a GP as an emergency room seems just as important as the current problem in the US, where they have to try to stop people from treating the emergency room like a GP.
Right out of high school, I worked in collections, and part of my rotation was accounts from the local hospital system trying to collect $20 co-pays from people who went to the emergency room for things that were clearly not an emergency. That experience most certainly played a role in developing my worldview today.
Last edited by Inso0; 07-18-2017 at 08:54 PM.