The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #105149   Message #2161537
Posted By: John Hardly
01-Oct-07 - 09:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: Universal Medicine in the USA.
Subject: RE: BS: Universal Medicine in the USA.
McGrath, The doctors in your country did not buy their practices (which generally entails paying for them -- an ongoing thing when practices cost deeply into six figures) under a system whereby they could make the payments on their practices and still have sufficient left over for living...

...and then have the entire payment structure upon which those commitments to pay were pulled out from under them. All your doctors who own practices bought them under your current system. Do you think they could hold onto them if suddenly your "system" decided that all of a sudden your government was not going to pay as much as it had paying all along? Do you think the doctors who own their own practices could keep them if they were suddenly given only a small percentage of the fees upon which they had predicated the purchase of their practices?