If the AMA get word of this, they'll start pushing for a US single-payer system.
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About 2/3 of the way down. Under "NPDB Average Payment Per Physician". Across the provinces, the avarage appears to be about CAN$225,000. That's US$180,000.
Physician Income
Wouldn't physicians make much less money in this system?
Most physicians would make less gross money, but the same net amount. Because the system would have much simpler billing (there's only one form to fill out), physicians would have much smaller costs, too. Canadian physicians make similar amounts to what US physicians make; specialists generally make less, but medical school is much less expensive and debt-ridden in Canada than it is in the US. Physician income is also much more stable in Canada, where the government is required to pay physicians within 30 days of the bill, or interest is charged to the government. (And surprisingly, when Saskatchewan, the first province to enact national health insurance act in Canada, started its program in 1963, physician incomes increased by 35% the next year.)
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