Curious how many private sector doctors are willing to sleep in a tent and get shot at working 18x7 no overtime living off MREs in Iraq for year at time and the inability to quit or go on vacation. Those damn Federal government doctors.
Not saying you couldn't set the pay high but it's going to be exponential what you pay them now. You se…
Curious how many private sector doctors are willing to sleep in a tent and get shot at working 18x7 no overtime living off MREs in Iraq for year at time and the inability to quit or go on vacation. Those damn Federal government doctors.
Not saying you couldn't set the pay high but it's going to be exponential what you pay them now. You seem to forget on average the USG pays contractors two times what they pay in house when it comes to personnel, facilities, and services. When I left the USG the average rate we paid our contactors was $225/hr, we paid the Feds they replaced $115/hr factoring in benefits, facilities, etc costs.
I'll grant you that doctors working for the military in a legitimate defensive war should be paid a high salary. However, they're only a tiny portion of the doctors working for the government. The others are robbing the public.
Not at all, the overwhelming number of Federal doctors, not counting the ones in DoD, are either USPHS, VA, or the Bureau of Prisons all providing direct medical services, sans the latter, to those nominally assigned to them, i.e. USPHS serve as the doctors on NOAA Corp ships for example; the VA doctors, whom treat vets, are a huge cost savings over "care in the community" which is where the VA outsources vet care to the private sector.
I feel you are just repeating sound talking points with an ex to grind and have zero clue about Federal medical doctors. They aren't serving the public, you are confusing them with state and municipal doctors.
Fauci was not a currently licensed medical practitioner with prescription authority, he was a agency manager who happened to have a medical degree. I went to school for economics thirty years ago, that doesn't make me an economist.
The USPHS should be abolished because we don't need doctor nannies to tell us how to run our lives and restraining trade, preventing 23andMe from selling products that people want. Before oppressing 23andMe, the USPHS prevented people from buying home pregnancy tests.
Margaret Crane, a product designer at Organon Pharmaceuticals argued in the late 1960s the company's pregnancy test could be simplified and sold directly to consumers. Crane's bosses resisted, not wanting to upset their physician clients, who then had a monopoly on testing women's urine for pregnancy hormones. After the company eventually adopted Crane's position, vendors of the test faced pushback from the United States Public Health Service and the Texas Medical Association.
It's been 50 years since Crane built her prototype, and home pregnancy tests have not caused a rash of suicides or psychotic breaks (as her bosses at Organon initially predicted); nor do women find them inscrutable or impossible to use. There are no contemporary arguments for revoking the right to test at home, and I can't imagine any obstetrician would argue that women are worse off for the invention.
And yet that isn't what USPHS DOCTORS do, they mostly work on ships for NOAA or deploy with FEMA. You once again are confusing administrators, directors, etc with DOCTORS.
You literally said we should fire all Federal doctors; then conceded well not military ones for no reason other than "well Feds that out in a camo uniform are exempt cuz they are pretty) (or something), they are still Feds though. Now you want to fire all the emergency FEMA doctors and those providing medical services on ships to scientists at NOAA lol. Once again, not trying to be a dick, but I think you have no idea about Federal doctors nor even their pay or duties.
Now sure we can just get rid of NOAA and FEMA, let soldiers bleed to death, and the ones that survive can just be homeless dying of preventable conditions because we fired all there doctors but I don't think Musk or Trump is advocating that.
I don't disagree but that's a different issue, they do exist and sans closing them down, they need doctors working for them, or more accurately, it's cheaper to have doctors on your payroll rather than contracting them. Your initial point wasn't shutting down an entire bureau or agency hence making all those jobs redundant and forcing most of them to just go on welfare where you will still pay them anyways as a result, but specially to impose a Federal bar on hiring medical doctors and all allow the contracting of their private sector services even at greater cost and a high level of inefficiency.
Curious how many private sector doctors are willing to sleep in a tent and get shot at working 18x7 no overtime living off MREs in Iraq for year at time and the inability to quit or go on vacation. Those damn Federal government doctors.
Not saying you couldn't set the pay high but it's going to be exponential what you pay them now. You seem to forget on average the USG pays contractors two times what they pay in house when it comes to personnel, facilities, and services. When I left the USG the average rate we paid our contactors was $225/hr, we paid the Feds they replaced $115/hr factoring in benefits, facilities, etc costs.
I'll grant you that doctors working for the military in a legitimate defensive war should be paid a high salary. However, they're only a tiny portion of the doctors working for the government. The others are robbing the public.
Not at all, the overwhelming number of Federal doctors, not counting the ones in DoD, are either USPHS, VA, or the Bureau of Prisons all providing direct medical services, sans the latter, to those nominally assigned to them, i.e. USPHS serve as the doctors on NOAA Corp ships for example; the VA doctors, whom treat vets, are a huge cost savings over "care in the community" which is where the VA outsources vet care to the private sector.
I feel you are just repeating sound talking points with an ex to grind and have zero clue about Federal medical doctors. They aren't serving the public, you are confusing them with state and municipal doctors.
Fauci was not a currently licensed medical practitioner with prescription authority, he was a agency manager who happened to have a medical degree. I went to school for economics thirty years ago, that doesn't make me an economist.
The USPHS should be abolished because we don't need doctor nannies to tell us how to run our lives and restraining trade, preventing 23andMe from selling products that people want. Before oppressing 23andMe, the USPHS prevented people from buying home pregnancy tests.
Margaret Crane, a product designer at Organon Pharmaceuticals argued in the late 1960s the company's pregnancy test could be simplified and sold directly to consumers. Crane's bosses resisted, not wanting to upset their physician clients, who then had a monopoly on testing women's urine for pregnancy hormones. After the company eventually adopted Crane's position, vendors of the test faced pushback from the United States Public Health Service and the Texas Medical Association.
It's been 50 years since Crane built her prototype, and home pregnancy tests have not caused a rash of suicides or psychotic breaks (as her bosses at Organon initially predicted); nor do women find them inscrutable or impossible to use. There are no contemporary arguments for revoking the right to test at home, and I can't imagine any obstetrician would argue that women are worse off for the invention.
And yet that isn't what USPHS DOCTORS do, they mostly work on ships for NOAA or deploy with FEMA. You once again are confusing administrators, directors, etc with DOCTORS.
You literally said we should fire all Federal doctors; then conceded well not military ones for no reason other than "well Feds that out in a camo uniform are exempt cuz they are pretty) (or something), they are still Feds though. Now you want to fire all the emergency FEMA doctors and those providing medical services on ships to scientists at NOAA lol. Once again, not trying to be a dick, but I think you have no idea about Federal doctors nor even their pay or duties.
Now sure we can just get rid of NOAA and FEMA, let soldiers bleed to death, and the ones that survive can just be homeless dying of preventable conditions because we fired all there doctors but I don't think Musk or Trump is advocating that.
There shouldn't be any doctors or other employees working for NOAA or FEMA because those agencies shouldn't exist.
I don't disagree but that's a different issue, they do exist and sans closing them down, they need doctors working for them, or more accurately, it's cheaper to have doctors on your payroll rather than contracting them. Your initial point wasn't shutting down an entire bureau or agency hence making all those jobs redundant and forcing most of them to just go on welfare where you will still pay them anyways as a result, but specially to impose a Federal bar on hiring medical doctors and all allow the contracting of their private sector services even at greater cost and a high level of inefficiency.