http://www.peterubel.com/2009/07/reforming-not-only-how-we-pay-physicians-but-how-much-we-pay-them/ on Science, Policy, Health, Well-Being and Ethics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://www.peterubel.com/2009/07/reforming-not-only-how-we-pay-physicians-but-how-much-we-pay-them/#comment-61 Kent Bottles: Do Doctors Make Too Much Money? Part II « ICSI Health Care Blog Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:53:29 +0000 http://www.peterubel.com/2009/07/reforming-not-only-how-we-pay-physicians-but-how-much-we-pay-them/#comment-61 [...] Peter Ubel, “a primary care physician at the University of Michigan, who does not make even close to $300,000 per year, but who’d gladly take a pay cut to help move this country toward a more sensible health care system,”  writes that “health care reform ought to be forcing us to take a hard look at just how wealthy U.S. physicians have become in the last few decades, far wealthier in fact than their colleagues in other developed countries.  Yet this topic of doctors’ incomes has been largely ignored in the public debate that has surrounded health care reform.” (http://www.peterubel.com/2009/07/reforming-not-only-how-we-pay-physicians-but-how-much-we-pay-them/) [...] [...] Peter Ubel, “a primary care physician at the University of Michigan, who does not make even close to $300,000 per year, but who’d gladly take a pay cut to help move this country toward a more sensible health care system,”  writes that “health care reform ought to be forcing us to take a hard look at just how wealthy U.S. physicians have become in the last few decades, far wealthier in fact than their colleagues in other developed countries.  Yet this topic of doctors’ incomes has been largely ignored in the public debate that has surrounded health care reform.” (http://www.peterubel.com/2009/07/reforming-not-only-how-we-pay-physicians-but-how-much-we-pay-them/) [...]

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