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Originally Posted by leoslayer
i said the military medicine overall was a lower quality of care. i used that example of lack of profit motive resulting in lower quality.
i want doctors to be able to make as much as they can.
I don't see where this is an argument against UHC? Do you think doctors don't make as much as they can here?
Here you have to choose your favorite generic doctor to which you go to when you need something non emergency related ( if you go him it's always free whatever you ened to do ). That doctor get's 50€ a year for every patient he has on his list. The maximum is 1500 patients, which most doctors get to. That's 75000 a year as base salary. Then they get an added bonus for every eldery patient they have, which is probably the majority of patients. And this is only the base salary, to which you have to add money he get's from pharmaceutical advisors, money he get's from private appointments, he get's even more from signing certificates ( like a certificate you are healthy and can do sport, which is not covered by the gov and goes directly to the doctor, another 40€ ).
All in all, generic doctors here make over 150000 a year just from gov work, and they have time to do private too! My doctor does 5 hours a day for UHC, the rest is private work.
And this is just for the generic doctor you go to the start a diagnosis! A friend of mine does mostly public hospital work, and he recently bought a house worth 1.000.000 euro. I think he does make more than enough to survive, don't you?