US doctor in Canada: Medicare for All would have made America's COVID response much better

First I believe that if you want health care you should decide whether you want it or not, and not be forced to be apart of something you don’t want to. Obamacare for example for some families to take upon health care and was detrimental to their finances. Now the issue is what if you want to be apart of something that you can’t afford. That’s why I believe it should be cheaper, but without it coming from our pockets in the form of tax. The only possible way I see this happening is lowering salaries of doctors. As of now doctors salaries are in the hundreds of thousands. Easily 500,000 if brain surgeon. Granted it’s a lot of work to be a doctor, and you have to have a passion for it. BUT, in return med school and undergrad should be cheaper. Since salaries are so ridiculously high for doctors, they force us to pay a lot for health care. Doctors in other countries aren’t receive that much money. Israel for example had free health care. Doctors there make no where near the doctors in America, and it takes longer to be a doctor there. The real issue is that doctors have a ton of lobbyists, and they don’t want their salaries to go down. This lead to my number 1 issue with US. The US’s education system has destroyed values. Everyone is either power hungry, or wants money. Doctors as a whole will not lower their salaries, which is why you have these lobbyists. If our education system (public schools mostly), instilled values In our future generations, then it wouldn’t seem out of the ordinary to lower some salaries. But lobbyist and all the political parties are power hungry, and that makes change not happen.

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