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To: Father Terrence who wrote (23410)	7/10/1998 11:01:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Terrence, having worked in a doctor's office, I can tell you for sure that doctors have already become slaves to managed care, which is a for-profit system. I am not convinced that having doctors reimbursed by the government instead of HMO's would make any difference, except that they might make more money. Basic Medicare seems to be more generous in what it covers than does managed care, so far at least. It is really mostly in America that doctors ever had the expectation that they would make at least several hundred thousand dollars a year. I definitely believe people should be compensated for the number of years they spend in school, but on that basis teachers should make a lot more than plumbers, for example. In San Francisco, secretaries make more than beginning teachers, so there is not much of an incentive for really bright people to go into teaching. In Europe doctors are respected professionals, but more like university professors than the wealthiest entrepreneurs in society. So perhaps it is America, not the rest of the world, that is the aberration in medicine. Interestingly enough, we are the only wealthy industrialized society which does not consider health care a basic human right. Is there a connection?