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>cumulatively the would make a big impact

Because of the nature of the healthcare market a reduction in physician salaries would be almost entirely captured by private equity and insurance companies.

The only realistic way a reduction in physician salaries leads to a significant reduction in costs is with a single payer system.

>fractal/recursive

This is just wishful thinking. I can think of zero mechanisms where paying physicians less has a compounding negative effect on prices.

I can think of several mechanisms for how it would have a compounding positive effect.

Decrease in quality, decrease in recruiting, acceleration of retirement etc…




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