On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Gruss Gott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1.) You cut their pay across the board. E.g., eye surgeons will now > make $250k max (not $1m+) That will be brutal. or > > 2.) You "deregulate" just like the airlines and force doctors to > compete and consumers to select. > > I don't favor anything that doesn't have a plan for lowering bottom line > costs.
You know Gruss, I'm all in favor of having a discussion on cost regulation in the medical industry. It is a really important discussion to have. But you keep pulling numbers out of thin air (to put it politely) without any backing evidence. Go take a look at the links that Robert posted about physician salaries. I didn't use those myself because several of them are job posting/recruiting type places which don't have the best numbers in my opinion, they tend to inflate them, but not a single specialty on any of the links had an average salary over a million. Only one of the links had a max reported salary listed over a million (that was for a spine surgeon). Lets, by all means, have a great discussion on cost containment strategies. But before you go there, do some research and find out actual numbe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:296706 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
