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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: skinowski who wrote (7131)6/20/2009 8:25:03 PM
From: John Koligman1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Then perhaps we need to attack the disparity in pay between the primaries and specialists. Is there a reason a radiologist should make two or three times what a primary care doc makes? Do they go through that much more training? Or is the problem that as so many articles say, our 'procedures driven' system helps cause the disparity? In theory, in a free market system if enough labor crowds into a particular category, the wages of that labor should come under pressure. I haven't done any looking around the net to see what specialists pay has done over the past decade, but will if I get some time. It would be interesting to see if they have outpaced the average in America over the past decade, which has not been kind in terms of wage growth to just about everyone except those at the very top...
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