That's a laugh. I know a lot of MDs who make less than your 125K$/yr.


Vito wrote:
That' odd. My brother, a mere Chiropractor, nets over $500,000/yr working a
40 hour week. Do these MDs practise in the USA or ?

Yes. They work at state university medical centers or in rural counties.

BTW I don't know of a single MD who works 40 hour weeks. Most work 60+
hours a week, many work 90 hour weeks. Since the requirements for
resident work hours was chopped, somebody has to take up the slack. And
if one has research projects on the bench, then usually they work about
twice as many hours per week as their own residents.

Then there's the situation with nurses....

Medical care in this country is headed for a train wreck, and it's being
speeded up by people who insist it's the fault of those damn rich
doctors. If you think doctors are the problem, next time you're sick
just cut out the middleman... go straight to a lawyer.



In any event, if there is no profit .......


I never even suggested NO profit, but when companies offer South Africa AIDS
medicines for $6/day and make a profit (else as you point out they wouldn't
do it) then it is obscene to charge US patients $100s/day to stay alive.

Not really. If you need cheap AIDS medication then I guess the answer is
to move to Africa.

Basically, this is a market system. They sell at a price people will buy
at. Price goes up, numbers of people who buy goes down... and vice
versa. The problem here is that people continue to buy drugs they "can't
afford" and then complain. If you don't put your money where your mouth
is, the market system will whipsaw you 8 days a week.


Nor do I suggest government controls. Just the opposite! I want the
existing controls that facilitate this kind of thing abolished. Then let a
truly free market establish price and profit. Y'know, the American way (c:

I suspect you wouldn't like the result at all.

Look back in history and see if you can find a time period when medical
care and drugs were cheap.


Nor did I say drugs should be free or even cheap. I said that prices should
be set by the FREE MARKET unencumbered by government sponsored monopoly.
Drug companies are already competing over the efficacy of Vaigra vs its
clones. If they'd also compete on price AND if one didn't have to pay an MD
for permision to buy it I'd be satisfied - in that case. Apply that across
the board and I'd be happy.

No you wouldn't. You'd (and 99% of everybody else) would do to the drug
companies the same thing that everybody has done to the airlines...
demand the cheapest & shoddiest possible service at the lowest possible
price, with the result that half the drugs on the market would be
placebos. The pharmaceutical industry would be Wal-Mart-ized... do you
think that's a *good* idea??!?

Next subject... bank deregulation... let's get the dadgum gov't
busybodies out of the way so that WE THE PEOPLE can enjoy the best
possible security & financial service from our banks!

Regards
Doug King