Medical professionals, will you still keep your job if our Country turns to socialized medicine? Or will you bail out due to getting lower wages and giving lower standards of care?
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What makes you think they'll get lower wages, or provide lower standards of care? Also, I would hope they would stay in the profession and provide the best care they could- one should not go into any job solely for the amount it pays...
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Lower standards of care? I'll just be glad when I can afford to go to the doctor to get a cough checked out, instead of hoping it goes away and later having to rush to the emergency room to find out I have pneumonia.
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I know several who are concerned about it and are looking at either retiring early or seeking other careers. As far as Canadian health care I live right on the Canadian border and my girlfriends mother is an RN and a large percentage of the patients they treat at the doctors office she works at are Canadians who can't get treatment in Canada without being put on a waiting list so they come here and pay so they can get immediate attention. None of the Canadians I know personally like the health care system in Canada.
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Working in mental health the majority of the funding we get actually already comes from the state government in the form of medicaid. Working with adolescents that are mainly in custody of the county we don't deal all that much with insurance anyway. So my pay really won't waver from what I am making now, if I stay where I am. But I will say on a side note that a good friend of mine needed a surgery to correct differences in the lengths of her legs (3 inches!!) which was causing MAJOR back and hip problems. She lives in Beliguim (which has socialized healthcare) and was unable to get the surgery until she was 23. This was because it wasn't considered life threatening and was put on a waiting list.
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I would most definately not bail. I would also not give a lower standard of care.
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I live in England, we have the NHS - the system works well, and although the waiting lists can be quite long, and there is fairly low wages for the amount of work (i think about £30,000 for a new doctor) that is not due to the system failing, it's due to the lack of funding given by the government, if they spent more money on it and less on pointless things then the system has the potencial to be good, possibly great - but our government won't because they suck. I hate the idea that people have to pay huge amounts of money to get medical help, i don't mind waiting for it, it's better than having to sell all my stuff to pay for it, after being refused an insurance pay out because my specific insurance company will lose a tiny percentage of profit by funding me. To be honest, i think the US system is corrupt and strongly favours the rich, at the expence of the poor, who are the ones that need help most.
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Right now, I work for the only nation-wide health care system in the U.S.: the Veterans Administration. I'm happy with my salary, and I'd like to think I give good quality care. I don't think a single-payer health system will be the disaster everyone thinks it is.
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