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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (36134)	4/23/2014 1:10:51 PM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Recommended By greatplains_guy i-node Respond to of 42652

People are not surprised when someone makes a lot of money running a business, but professionals, psychologically, are somewhere in between. If you see a guy standing on his two feet, working, practicing a certain skill, the impulse is to question - why should it be that his skill is worth so much more than mine. A market based system would have fixed this. Sometimes things get more confusing. Many years ago, the doctor's lounge in my hospital was abuzz with anger - the founder of an HMO - the US Healthcare - paid himself a salary of 10 million dollars. Docs where saying that "he is getting rich off my work", and things like that. My replay was - "guys, he owns the business, and can pay himself whatever he wants". And sure enough, a year or two later the dude sold the company for a sum of over a billion.

To: i-node who wrote (36134)	4/23/2014 1:10:53 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

People are not surprised when someone makes a lot of money running a business, but professionals, psychologically, are somewhere in between. If you see a guy standing on his two feet, working, practicing a certain skill, the impulse is to question - why should it be that his skill is worth so much more than mine. A market based system would have fixed this. Sometimes things get more confusing. Many years ago, the doctor's lounge in my hospital was abuzz with anger - the founder of an HMO - the US Healthcare - paid himself a salary of 10 million dollars. Docs where saying that "he is getting rich off my work", and things like that. My replay was - "guys, he owns the business, and can pay himself whatever he wants". And sure enough, a year or two later the dude sold the company for a sum of over a billion.