A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

Weiser says:
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Ipse dixit, quod erat demonstrandum.
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What you don't comprehend is that no doctor is required to participate
in the national insurance scheme -- all doctors are free.

Who pays them? And there certainly ARE government-employee doctors...and
nurses...and administrators.


Weiser says:
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Doctors in the US don't go on strike
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So, you're predicting that the 50,000 to 100,000 (and growing rapidly)
unionized doctors in the USA (can you say HMO?) will never go on
strike? Good luck on that one!

You need to learn the distinction between a union and an HMO. HMO doctors
can't strike because it's in their contract.


Weiser, in reference to the USA, says:
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Nope. They get paid exactly what the consume thinks their services are
worth.
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And you actually believe that, eh?

Of course! It's perfectly obvious. If the patient didn't think it was worth
it, they wouldn't use that doctor.


I suspect it's more a case of what the consumer "must" pay, because,
while you "talk to free market talk", "walking the walk" is quite
another thing. You have yet to explain how/why the free market doesn't
respond to such lucrative incomes with a greater supply of doctors.

It does. We have lots and lots of doctors. However, it does take many years
for the doctor population to respond to demand, which may result in
temporary shortages. But, as soon as the new crop is trained, they become
available to the market.

Scott, isn't that the way it's supposed to work?

It does.


What in hell is wrong with you guys down there, that you can't get the
capitalist system to work for you as far as the supply of doctors is
concerned?

Our doctor supply, like our lawyer supply, is just fine.

Maybe if you could get these things right, we'd be inclined
to follow your example. But, so long as the simple supply-demand thing
remains a mystery to you, perhaps we'd best stick to a system that
produces better results. When you get the kinks worked out, give us a
call.

Uh huh.


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