What will give a person incentive to go to medical school if socialized

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health care will be law? Keep in mind: medical school costs tens of thousands of dollars and at least 8 years of your life.
 
Incentives for people to become doctors -- saving lives, curing diseases, relieving pain, helping to bring new life into the world, little things like that.
 
I though the motivation in wanting to become a Physician ie. Doctor was mostly due to wanting to help peoples . But i realize the Hippocratic Oath have been replace by for profit and greed in this country. This why we need health care reform,
 
Soon it will be a bayonet. This is what is wrong with socialists, they fail to understand the incentives/rewards for greatness.

I look for a lot of C students becoming health care professionals. OOOh, socialized medicine it is soooo caring.
 
The cost of school would be prohibitive. Not to meantion all the red tape they will have to deal with. They are already swamped with a ridiculous amount of government and insurance paperwork as it is.

They are trying to fix the wrong part, it is the insurances that needs to be fixed not the medical care.
 
Well, if fewer people want to be doctors, then there is fewer demand for medical school, which should drive down the cost of tuition. Plus, most countries with universal healthcare also have subsidized post-secondary education, which will make medical school cheaper. Finally, there's the incentive for people who just want to help others, kind of like those who go into teaching. Anymore, one needs a Masters degree to even teach junior high school, and teachers aren't paid nearly as well as doctors, yet some people still willingly pursue teaching careers.
 
So in your world, compassion only stems from a profit motive, eh?

Nowhere in your cranium does the thought even occur that doctors enter their profession to help their fellow human being?

That's really sad.

I'm sorry, but a doctor to whom money is the only concern in entering the field should more properly be termed a mechanic.
 
They will be overpaid and have job security like every unionized government job. They won't be able to run their own practice, but it still would be a good job. The government will probably provide incentives for med students in the form of grants to help pay for school also.
 
Very little.

What will be even better to watch is how many current physicians quit or dramatically scale back what procedures they will perform, and when they will perform them.

When you're punching a clock for your paycheck, why stick around an extra 3 hours when there's another shift coming on right behind you? That's your biggest worry in a true socialized system....needing emergency treatment right at a shift change.
 
The government will have to pay for tuition. We will get government quality medicine.

Oh, these poor silly fools who think that we are going to get "compassion" from our government. When they wake up it will be too late.
 
I'm working on a degree in a field of allied medical right now and I'm glad we're getting the reform we need. It will actually be good for the medical profession because more people will be going to see the doctor. Our society will be much healthier because of the reform.
 
There will be better use of all medical specialties, lab, XRay, surgery, PA, PT, etc. I There will be more money for tuition, also.

The insurance companies now are paying MDs per visit, per test and give them bonus monies for saving hospital days, test fees, etc. The doctors won't be 'beholding' to insurance, drug companies and malpractice insurance fees.

Doctors will be free to practice REAL MEDICINE!!
 
To get a job as a doctor? To help people?

Honestly you are so focused on money.... For many doctors the money is only a small part of it....

Not that socialized medicine means they wouldn't be getting paid just as well... there is NO indication of that. They just will get the money form the government instead of your private insurance plan.. that already does everything in it's power to not pay....

Nothing will change on that side of things. I can't imagine how one could convince of the scenario you think will happen. It just doesn't make sense. Someone is playing your fears like a harp.... consider that, and then wonder what their motivation is to lie to you.
 
For starters, socialized medicine has never been a consideration here.

Some advocate a single payer system which is much different from a socialized system.

One more time. Socialized medicine as in France, the doctors work for the government.
Single Payer, just like here with the government filling the role of the insurance company which saves much much money.


But to your question. A doctor should want to become a doctor because he or she is a compassionate and intelligent person who wants to heal people.
Countries with so call "socialized medicine and those with single payer systems have no trouble attracting doctors.

Plenty of doctors in France and they have the world's best system. How do you account for that?
 
Medical school costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and at least 12 years of your life.( 4 pre med, 4 med, 4-5 residency).

You will soon see an upsurge in Dermatologists.
 
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