Why doesn't the Government regulate doctor and specialists' charges?
Taxpayers provide most of their education costs .
Just have a look at the Doctors' parking lot in your local medical centre or hospital. There's the latest
Mercedes Benz, BMW and Lexus cars and these doctors and specialists are multi millionaires by the time they are
40 with their multi-million $ mansions as evidence. State subsidised medical education should carry with it a social obligation to serve the community. That, IMO, should be to serve in our hospitals for at least 10 years @ a wage of say 150% of nurse's pay. As such, hospitals
could then offer a casual outpatient medical service comparable to that of the independent GP which, in turn, would
moderate GP & Specialists' charges.
Similarly, migrant medicos should be required to work for at least 5 years in our hospital system at a moderate
wage .
While the Abbott Government is using its attack dogs to cruel working class wages and the unions that support the working class, it hasn't the balls to attack the AMA and its price gouging doctors and Specialists. The AMA effectively controls the numbers admitted into medicine annually rather than the Government governing supply to moderate doctors' wages.Imagine if the ACTU was allowed to control apprenticeships?
We should have a career path from nurses and paramedics into GPs rather than an absurd antiquated
regime based on OP scores achieved by the age of 18 by middle and upper class kids.
GPs should be no better paid than accountants or solicitors.
Up to now the AMA and doctors generally have been treated like a sacred cow and it is now time to
curtail their ever increasing charges and the monopoly that the AMA enjoys.
Cheers
Moorookamick
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