Factoid of the Day

From Dean Baker:

If physicians in the United States received the same pay as physicians in Europe, this step alone would save $80 billion a year from the country's health care bill - approximately $800 per family.

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Instead, I would love to see the financial impact if executives of managed care companies were religated to making as much as physicians. Physician salaries are the least of our worries in the current health care crisis.