Universal Healthcare in Injury Lawsuits?

[mattpegher]

Primary care seems to be on the wane, and the loss of the most important aspect of individual medical care is going to cause serious problems in this country within the next 10 or more years. I agree that the biggest non-financial problem is far too few doctors--but again, I think the reason for that is tied to finances--preposterous debt out of education, far too long to pay it back and make a living, malpractice insurance, etc.

You aint kidding I graduated in 92 and still have over 50K in student loans.

 

[FoBoT]

instead of enslaving the medical professionals, i vote we force the current 'free' doctors to clone themselves, and we enslave the clones, then it'll be easy to provide free medical services to everyone on earth, with clone doctors, we can all have our own slave clone doctor

 

[Mike Gayner]

instead of enslaving the medical professionals, i vote we force the current 'free' doctors to clone themselves, and we enslave the clones, then it'll be easy to provide free medical services to everyone on earth, with clone doctors, we can all have our own slave clone doctor

Doctors make a shit load of money here. They're extraordinarily well paid, and that's under our communist health care regime. Their pay packet comes down to supply and demand, like everyone else's. I don't know why people think that universal healthcare will lead to the "enslavement" of medical professionals.

 

[ichy]

In the US doctor's wages aren't really governed by supply and demand. Medicare largely dictates what they pay physicians and most private insurance companies base their rates on that. That's why there's a shortage of primary care physicians, yet the wages for PCPs are dropping.

 

[sdifox]

I heard pain and suffering is a hard sell in Canada, since it's difficult to monetize. Lost wage or wage potential is more straight forward.

Also, I've heard the arguement that Canada isn't really completely public in health care. it's a private/public hybrid model. Forget why, or the arguements.

There are private clinics but they are still paid through the public system.

 

[Zenmervolt]

All I know is when my brother was involved in an auto accident with an unisured driver who was at fault, he was the named plaintiff in the case, with his auto and medical insurance each contributing lawyers. In the end the Auto got around 7K the Medical around 5K and him nothing. Though obviously the auto ins paid him for his car and his medical insurance is the one who paid for the medical bill.

(1) Your brother was named as plaintiff. That means the insurance company sued on his behalf.

(2) If he did not receive any money from the lawsuit, then the insurance companies had already paid out more to him before the lawsuit.

Nothing in your anecdote is counter to what I've said previously.

ZV