What will your doctor be willing to work for under a socialized healthcare system? Would they work for $53,000 per year??
CANADIAN DOCTORS DEMAND MORE PAY - New York Times
By HENRY GINIGER, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: April 25, 1982
Medicare, Canada's publicly financed comprehensive health system, is once again being battered by thousands of angry doctors agitating for higher incomes.
In Ontario, Canada's largest province, 15,000 doctors have been staying away from their offices or refusing to perform some services, such as prescribing drugs by telephone. Some 5,500 general practitioners in Quebec, the second largest province, are threatening to close their offices for a day next week.
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Well before the cuts, doctors' incomes were losing ground to those of other professional groups, the Medical Association says. It cited tax figures indicating that between 1971 and 1977 lawyers, dentists and accountants increased their incomes at a much faster rate than doctors. In Ontario, according to an association spokesman, the average net income for a doctor is about $53,000 a year.
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