Doctors' strike
in Health ·
🙂I don’t really see why anyone is surprised that doctors save lives; at the end of the day, that's literally what they're paid to do. Whether they can actually pull off a miracle when someone is on their last legs? Well, that's a whole different conversation.
Anyway, being a doctor is an honorable profession and serves the community well, but let's be real—it doesn't place them on some pedestal above the social realities we deal with here in the States. Personally, I’d love to see them pulling in much higher salaries, and honestly, I’d like us all to have much better pensions too, but given how things are set up right now, the current situation is more than fair.
But looking at the practical side of things... this strike by doctors and nurses shouldn't really be a headache for the rest of us, especially since they're still acting like they aren't even on strike. Most of the time, you'll find them right there in their units, just sort of wandering the halls.
If you want proof, just look at the doctors who work in public hospitals while running their own private practices on the side. In their private offices, they hustle way harder for the money, and their attitude toward patients is night and day compared to when they're at the hospital. At the hospital, they spend a fraction of the time with patients, not to mention how much of the actual medical workload is being shifted onto the nurses these days.
Since so many patients and regular folks are backing the healthcare workers' strike, I’ve got a simple idea to fix this mess: why don't we just raise the healthcare tax contribution to $67 for everyone? The government doesn't actually create its own revenue; it just redistributes whatever it collects from citizens in various ways. So, if people want better care, why shouldn't those same citizens take the initiative to increase what goes toward healthcare? Another option would be to bump the sales tax up to 27%, where 0.50% goes straight to healthcare and 1.5% goes to the political parties in Congress as a little "reward" for how fantastically they manage the country. 🙂
Anyway, being a doctor is an honorable profession and serves the community well, but let's be real—it doesn't place them on some pedestal above the social realities we deal with here in the States. Personally, I’d love to see them pulling in much higher salaries, and honestly, I’d like us all to have much better pensions too, but given how things are set up right now, the current situation is more than fair.
But looking at the practical side of things... this strike by doctors and nurses shouldn't really be a headache for the rest of us, especially since they're still acting like they aren't even on strike. Most of the time, you'll find them right there in their units, just sort of wandering the halls.
If you want proof, just look at the doctors who work in public hospitals while running their own private practices on the side. In their private offices, they hustle way harder for the money, and their attitude toward patients is night and day compared to when they're at the hospital. At the hospital, they spend a fraction of the time with patients, not to mention how much of the actual medical workload is being shifted onto the nurses these days.
Since so many patients and regular folks are backing the healthcare workers' strike, I’ve got a simple idea to fix this mess: why don't we just raise the healthcare tax contribution to $67 for everyone? The government doesn't actually create its own revenue; it just redistributes whatever it collects from citizens in various ways. So, if people want better care, why shouldn't those same citizens take the initiative to increase what goes toward healthcare? Another option would be to bump the sales tax up to 27%, where 0.50% goes straight to healthcare and 1.5% goes to the political parties in Congress as a little "reward" for how fantastically they manage the country. 🙂