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Re: money can't buy you love

Posted by: Paul (PDK) ( CAPITALISM DEFENDERS OF AMERICA, USA ) on March 26, 1997 at 00:21:32:

In Reply to: money can't buy you love posted by john on March 24, 1997 at 18:01:20:

: Our HEALTH CARE would drop to almost
: nothing because all of our DOCTORS that make 200 K - 500 K a year

I'm really sorry. There are very few doctors that make 200-500K in a year in America. In fact there are very few doctors in the world that make the kind of fictional figure you have dreamt of.

Facts aside, I really don't think you thought about what you wrote. Is a health service only any good if some people become appalingly rich our of it? it seems to be implied in your defence of it. Also I would rather be helped by a doctor who was interested in saving my life, rather than one who was interested in lineing his wallet.

I'm sure you know that money can't buy you love and yet that seems to be all you are advocating. That paying doctors enormous sums will make them love their patients. If the main interest of a doctor is money, he should be a lawyer (and with any luck sue the shit out of MacDonalds).

I'm really sorry to tell you this John, but even an Anesthesiologist who is not even a doctor, makes an average of $ 220,000.00 per year after all expenses and taxes. On the other hand, a McDonalds worker in the USA makes only $4.25 an hour. Also, doctors deserve what they get. They are taking many risks every time they see a patient... ie: contraction of AIDS, TB, etc. Not to mention the risk of mal-practice suits. And believe me John, sueing the "shit" out of McDonalds will not solve anything.


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