<p>As a prospective pre-med I heard that if Barack Obama is elected president and implement his universal health care plan, it would that result in lower wages for doctors.</p>
<p>If so, when, and by how much?</p>
<p>For example in most European countries, where universal health care has existed for years, wages are surprisingly low:</p>
<p>search :rolleyes: - then bring back a new question and let the craziness begin haha</p>
<p>The prospect of universal health care brings changes far so deeper than just the doctor's salaries; it would restrict the freedom any doctor has when treating his/her patients. Health care would be run by the government meaning that the physicians in some cases, would be required to sacrifice their professional judgment to those who demand their services. Socialized medicine forces doctors to be servants, no longer professionals.</p>
<p>Obama is not planning to socialize health care.</p>
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it would restrict the freedom any doctor has when treating his/her patients. Health care would be run by the government meaning that the physicians in some cases, would be required to sacrifice their professional judgment to those who demand their services.
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And insurance companies do not do this already?</p>
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Socialized medicine forces doctors to be servants, no longer professionals.
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<p>True, but depending on what you do, this may not be that big a problem. Doctors are already much less professionals than they used to be, and that trend will continue even without government intervention.</p>
<p>By the way, Obama is running for president, not king. He is not even proposing universal health care, and his plan would cost a fortune, even more than the Billionaire Bailout. He would need Congress to go along with it, he would need some plan of how to pay for it, and raising taxes in the middle of a recession is not likely to go through.</p>
<p>So doctors incomes are likely to head down in any case, but we are not likely to see universal health care anytime soon.</p>
