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nsksl ◴[] No.44726146[source]
Nurses in Spain make 2500-3000 euro a month, in a country where the most common salary is 1250 euro. Are they overworked? Well then they can take a pay cut so we can hire more of them.
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an0malous ◴[] No.44726355[source]
Same for doctors, we constrain the number of new doctors trained every year to keep their salaries high. Just like constraining the housing supply to keep housing prices high, greed has corrupted these systems from getting better and now we’re just asking people to die instead.
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nradov ◴[] No.44727916[source]
Which country are you talking about, and who is "we"? In the USA, Congress constrains the number of new doctors trained every year not to keep salaries high but rather to limit Medicare expenses. If Medicare beneficiaries can't get an appointment due to a doctor shortage then no claim will be submitted to CMS. Most of the funding for residency programs comes from Medicare, and every year there are medical students who graduate with the MD but are unable to practice medicine because they don't get matched to a residency program.

At one point the AMA did lobby Congress to limit the number of doctors but they reversed their position on that issue long ago.

https://savegme.org/

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1. magicalhippo ◴[] No.44731305[source]
At least here in Norway, the doctor associations fights hard against any talk about reducing the ridiculously long shifts that nets the doctors large paychecks.

They'd much rather have 1-2 doctors do the work of 3-4, so they can cash in.

Though there is a change of guard happening. Younger people, including doctors, value work-life balance much more and are less inclined to work long hours for more cash.