a lot of slippery slope arguments here I agree On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You have shown that one study shows that 'primary care physicians' make > less > > than doctors in other specialties (the numbers Rob posted seem to > dis-prove > > what you are tryign to say) - that is a far cry from proof that doctors > in > > general don't care about money. > > I'm not sure where the idea got started that I think all doctors are > inherently altruistic and would happily work for nothing. As I said > before, I want and expect doctors to make a very decent living. They > have a very tough job and they generally have a huge pile of loans to > pay off after a very lengthy education and training period. > > The link I posted to PCP salaries was not to compare them to other > types of doctors. It was to refute the point you put out there saying > that even the worst doctor in the country could make several hundred > thousand dollars a year and to refute the point that Gruss and Rob > made saying that doctors wouldn't work for only 150K a year that they > would supposedly earn under a single payer health insurance program. I > simply showed that the bulk of the PCPs out there are making less than > 200K a year and a large minority of them are earning less than 100K a > year. > > That doesn't mean that all doctors live a paupers life, it doesn't > mean that they are all noble physicians in it for nothing but the > public good. What it does mean is that the picture that was being > painted of doctors all earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year > and being in it just for the money is patently false. > > There is a lot to meaningfully debate here. But when people are > starting with a preconceived image of one of the major factors > (physicians) that is demonstrably wrong, it makes it difficult to get > to anything meaningful. > > Judah > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:296707 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
