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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A. Single payer health care systems do not pay doctors the big bucks
B. Carefirst is a nonprofit organization while Johns Hopkins made $200 million in profit last year

What that means for this discussion is up for debate but I think this is a complex issue.[/quote]

My wife's side of the family has a few of people in the medical industry and they make really good money. Unsurprisingly, not one of them will be in a room with a patient this week. 
CareFirst may meet the IRS definition of a non-profit but they feed a lot of money to a lot of millionaires.

Is the American healthcare system more complex? That's the intention. More pockets to be stuffed. It's the same reason the F35 jet fighter uses components from over 200 Congressional districts. I cannot imagine how many billions they spend to assure that we never convert to a single payer system. Besides, it would put my relatives out of work.

My doctor works for Hopkins and made a weak argument for me to stay with the practice. Alas, we have the golden handcuffs to BCBS so off we go.[/quote]

CareFirst pays plenty of money to people at the top who never see a patient or save a life. The doctors I know making a lot of money don’t take insurance and tend to be in cosmetic practices. The oncologists, pediatrician’s, primary care, gerontologists I know don’t make large salaries when you consider what they do for a living. CareFirst executives make more than the doctors. It’s powered by greed. [/quote]

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