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- From: egreen@East.Sun.COM (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Re; Nat'l Health Plan (Was: Re: Lance
- Message-ID: <1k3jipINN1n6@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:58:32 GMT
- References: <1k18h1INN5v5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article 1k18h1INN5v5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu, ellert@v32.uh.cwru.edu () writes:
- >
- >Since when, in this supposedly free country, don't doctors have a right
- >to 6 digit incomes? [...]
- >Or should the salaries be
- >dictated by what the market will bear? Personally, I believe that the
- >forces of the market should dictate salaries.
-
- We are in violent agreement! :^)
-
- The problem is that today, free market forces do NOT dictate those
- salaries. Health care consumers do not directly pay for the
- product/service they are purchasing, and the closed loop control of
- free market forces goes out the window. People (more likely, their
- employers) pay insurance premiums, then the insurance companies pay for
- their health care. There is less than no incentive for consumers to
- shop for cost-effective health care.
-
- Any doctor, engineer, or motorcycle mechanic who can earn a 6 figure
- income, in a true free market, is absolutely entitled to it.
-
- ---
- Ed Green, former Ninjaite |I was drinking last night with a biker,
- Ed.Green@East.Sun.COM |and I showed him a picture of you. I said,
- DoD #0111 (919)460-8302 |"Go on, get to know her, you'll like her!"
- (The Grateful Dead) --> |It seemed like the least I could do...
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