ugacrew

If they throw the eggs then what will they do for quiche???

fatbrit

Native born, Elvira! The naturalized is a different breed.

Michael

That is because malpractice insurance in New York and Florida is extremely high as well as other costs. For example, an OB in New York pays nearly $300,000 per year for malpractice insurance and an OB in a state such as Minnesota pays only about $20,000. When malpractice insurance started to significantly rise in the late 1990s, some doctors were seeing increases of $20,000 a year in malpractive insurance per year with very little being offset by increased medicare payments. That is why many doctors will accept a fixed salary (even if it is lower) since on an average they already lost about 10% in real salary over the past 10 years. Probably New York and Flordia doctors lost significantly more than 10%.

Then the government turns around and says the doctor has to accept 50% less for certain precdures and office visits. If that that doctor previously had $500,000 in expenses and $700,000 (mostly from medicare) in total revenue, those cuts may reduce his revenue down to $550,000 leaving him very little left over for himself.

So if the government will pick up the costs of the doctors office (including malpractice insurance), many doctors will be quite happy.

Elvira

Mongrel!

augigi

You can't possibly think the docs/nurses pay even comes into it. More like, the hospital administration wanted the bed to make more money.

Tracym

If they reformed the entire thing, perhaps they wouldn't. But not likely anytime soon.

But my point was just an example in response to the question - where else would doctors go.

Ozzidoc

Other countries?

scrubbedexpat099

Germany?

Ozzidoc

I was thinking Australia, Canada, NZ....

Tracym

Good point.

There is a difference between flight attendants and doctors.

Nothing wrong with being a flight attendant of course, sounds like a good job in many ways - but it doesn't require years and years of degrees and training.

I don't think a professional that invested that many years of his life in the training is going to easily accept a huge pay cut.

paul1968mcr

Are there any charities I can donate too that support health care for illegal immigrants?

penguinsix

There are a few immigration advocacy groups that dabble in health care information (not necessarily providers), but you could just as easily spend money for a bunch of campaign buttons as you could medical care.

In many cities, there is a network of low income and immigrant health care providers. Some get grants some operate independently.

Here's a good story about one in DC:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...072802580.html

You may want to contact the "Immigrant Welcome Center" in Indianapolis. They might have some good contacts. These articles note they do some assistance programs including health care.

http://www.insideindianabusiness.com...m.asp?ID=27002
http://www.allbusiness.com/governmen...0583644-1.html

Thydney

Or they could stay in India and Pakistan where theyre actually needed

fatbrit

You already do -- it's called taxes.

But then you're already paying for Walmart's employees, anyway.

Rete

You want to donate more than you already do in taxes? You're a good man, Charlie Brown.