@MaryMarasKittenBakery@irina@wellingtonrock well, it seems to me that the point is that in some ways it's easy to pretend that state-run healthcare has no cost for people and no hunderlying exploitation and power structures to worry about…
@irina@wellingtonrock according to a quick web search, the average salary of a doctor in the UK is 4400·£ which is roughly 10 times what i get as an unemployed person in germany.
so for me they do seem rather rich to me, but regardless, i say that it is decent evidence that there would be quite a bit less healthcare happening if people if noone made money with it…
@joesabin@irina@wellingtonrock i did not mean or attempt to delegitimate their income. i was just saying that financial incentives are there and that itself is not the problem.
i guess the long training combined with long hours could be an indication that there is a barrier-to-entry problem, but that doesn't mean doctors want that or are to blame for it…
How can you compare unemployment to compensation to a doctor who spent a minimum of seven years in school to get their degree, then three years in hospital as intern and resident? Nothing in that meme suggested no one makes money or that they shouldn't be compensated for their skill, education, and work. Just that the hospital is not taking advantage of sick people to make money for investors.
@sofia@irina@wellingtonrock The point OP makes is not "no cost" but "not just for profit" aka not a health care system who's sole goal is profit. There's a difference. And how devastating health care becomes when profit trumps health can be seen already..