bellisarius
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A little snippet about what's going on in Sweden.
"When you can get it."
The article rambles on but there are a couple of facts that stand out even though they aren't discussed in any detail.
The first being that there's a shortage of doctors and nurses. That is neither surprising nor uncommon in those nations that practice "Universal" health care.
The second is the taxation rate, 50%.
Not surprisingly both are related. While we bitch about the cost of drugs and other paraphernalia the greatest cost in health care is the labor costs. Health care is at its core a personal service that one or more individuals render to another. That is where the greater amount of your monies are going.
The only way that medical costs can be contained is by limiting the income of the various providers. A doctor in Sweden makes the equivalent of $48,000/yr. A specialist may earn up to $90,000/yr. That is before taxes earnings, remember the 50% tax? Providers other than doctors obviously earn less. But returning to the doctors, who wants to spend upwards of 8 years of their life in higher education and internship to ultimately earn what will yield you a barely above poverty level income here in the states if you are a general practitioner? Is it any wonder that they have a shortage?
We in the US are facing a similar problem, different reasons but the same problem...a shortage of doctors and other providers. While our medical providers aren't government employees.......yet.............the regulations placed on them are a rough equivalent. And the costs for the fulfillment of those regulations is coming right out of your pocket. Any one else noticed how many of your GP practitioners in private practice are now foreign borne and trained? No, I'm not implying that they're incompetent, merely that fewer and fewer native borne are entering the medical field as doctors. And they are neither interested in, or can afford, to set up shop in Sheldon IA., or Crescent Junction UT.
Somebody better start thinking outside the box.
"When you can get it."
The article rambles on but there are a couple of facts that stand out even though they aren't discussed in any detail.
The first being that there's a shortage of doctors and nurses. That is neither surprising nor uncommon in those nations that practice "Universal" health care.
The second is the taxation rate, 50%.
Not surprisingly both are related. While we bitch about the cost of drugs and other paraphernalia the greatest cost in health care is the labor costs. Health care is at its core a personal service that one or more individuals render to another. That is where the greater amount of your monies are going.
The only way that medical costs can be contained is by limiting the income of the various providers. A doctor in Sweden makes the equivalent of $48,000/yr. A specialist may earn up to $90,000/yr. That is before taxes earnings, remember the 50% tax? Providers other than doctors obviously earn less. But returning to the doctors, who wants to spend upwards of 8 years of their life in higher education and internship to ultimately earn what will yield you a barely above poverty level income here in the states if you are a general practitioner? Is it any wonder that they have a shortage?
We in the US are facing a similar problem, different reasons but the same problem...a shortage of doctors and other providers. While our medical providers aren't government employees.......yet.............the regulations placed on them are a rough equivalent. And the costs for the fulfillment of those regulations is coming right out of your pocket. Any one else noticed how many of your GP practitioners in private practice are now foreign borne and trained? No, I'm not implying that they're incompetent, merely that fewer and fewer native borne are entering the medical field as doctors. And they are neither interested in, or can afford, to set up shop in Sheldon IA., or Crescent Junction UT.
Somebody better start thinking outside the box.
