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Originally Posted by AIbenjamink
This is exactly correct, money is never a primary determining factor when choosing medicine as a career path, but when you add the cost of undergraduate education, medical school, and combine it with big brother hovering over you influencing your decisions, there is even less incentive for anyone with the non fiscal drive to practice.
Granted, this does not change my goals or motivations.
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The idea that big brother will be hovering over you is, quite frankly, completely ludicrous. There tends to be little difference in what is covered and what is not between public and private types of insurance. If anything, public coverage tends to lead to less time being spent on disputing the necessity of recommended procedures. Plus, billing and collecting instantly gets a whole lot easier.
Aside from that, a public system also has another major benefit: the government will have more of a reason to take a long, hard look at malpractice laws. And by reason, I mean money. For most physicians, that would be a major improvement. Much less of a need to practice defensive medicine, saving many tens of thousands of dollars in malpractice insurance a year - those are pretty good things.