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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why should doctors at a hospital get paid differently depending on which patients they see? I know that’s how it works, but this demonstrates why maybe it shouldn’t be that way.[/quote] Because medical school is cripplingly expensive and residents are drastically underpaid. We want poor people to get medical care, but we are not will to pay enough in taxes to give doctors reimbursement rates comparable to what they get from old people let alone from people with decent insurance or out of network. The end result is that their pay depends on the patients they see. At least for procedures in a hospital, the level of care is roughly the same regardless of care. For people seeing internists for routine appointments, the difference in the level of care between a doctor who accepts no insurance and a doctor willing to take medicaid patients is going to be vast [/quote]
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