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A Medicare-Hospital Salary In The Millions of Tax-Dollars
Does Not "Serve The Community" When There Are Disparities In Care--People In Need Who Are Charged Retail Rates At De Facto
Private/Corporate-Hospitals, Because Medicare Is Funded With Taxes. Such Imbalances Constitute Economic Slavery.
We Can Do Better In The "Land of The Free." -- H.E. Butler III M.D., FACS (HButler@post.Harvard.edu)
What Fraction of Your Medicare Dollar Reaches Your
Bedside, Versus The Amount That Is Diverted Into Nonprofit-Profit, government overhead, hospital overhead, etc.?
We can start local foundations to fund graduate medical
education, with or without federal funds. This is a better way to serve a community than paying admnistrators more than
neurosurgeons. If you want your public funds to serve a public purpose, compare how much "nonprofit profit" your local
hospitals divert into administrators' salaries. It's pretty simple math. As former President Clinton said at the
convention, check the arithmetic.
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