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Let’s say starting tomorrow we decided to pay all doctors in the US $0 dollars a year. How much would the US actually save an annual healthcare expenditures? Approximately 8%

Doctors salaries are not a major driver of healthcare expenditures - they’re just an easy target because doctors tend to be the most public facing part of healthcare. How many health care administrators do you meet when you go to the hospital?

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Also, even if we were to use AI to replace a doctor, the for-profit hospitals would pocket the difference as profits.

For-profit medical services are inhumane, immoral, cruel, barbaric at their core.

Every time I describe the US medical industry and medical insurance industry in Europe, people react with disbelief, disgust and horror.

The amount of mass propaganda needed to keep this monstrosity in place explains a lot.

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