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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I've written about the corrosive effect that religion can have on medical care when it is allowed to become too pervasive.
In an article made available today on the New England Journal of Medicine's website, University of Chicago researchers report on the results of a study that assessed how the moral beliefs of physicians affect their advice to patient
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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.