It is NOT a right not have insurance. If you have no insurance you come to the ER we still have to treat you and pay ur bills. If we are allowed to be unethical what we should do is, if you come to the ER and you have no insurance you just get turned away. It is YOUR CHOICE for not getting insurance, u can just die in front of the hospital then. Does this make sense? Why should rest of the population pay for those who CHOOSES not to get coverage?
And no, the starting salary for PCP in the US is not 125k, i get pay 200k as an internal medicine hospitalist in a subsurban area in California. Family medicine probably 150k or so. 125 maybe AFTER all the tax is about right though.
The amount of schooling we go through; it does not make sense to pay doctors less because sooner or later u will have no doctors then price will again have to go up. We come out of med school with 200+ k of debt. This being compounded during residency.
Do people realize how much training you have to go through to be qualified?
College standard (usually science major) 4 yrs (Loans)
Medical School 4 years (Loans and living expenses)
Residency 3-7 years depending on specialities (80 hour work week on 50k stipend, with monthly repaymdent about 2000, so I was negative salary for a few months if ur car breaks or u need to fix some things to shell out the bill).
We lose about 10 years of productivity and rack up 200k of debt for being a doctor, it is NOT all glamor. it is hard work.
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