What is the average salary of a Major Leaguer in baseball?
A: In 2009, the average salary was $2,996,106.
They aren’t even required to have a GED.
What were the incentives based upon? Are they paid on quality of care, keeping expenses down, etc.?
Without knowing this, providing a number with no perspective is meaningless. But, that is generally how the press operates.
They’d prefer medical care was a commodity so we could get the same level of service as we do from the US Postal Service.
The top STAGE HAND on Broadway was paid $125,000 on top of annual pay of over $ 400,000...A STAGE HAND.
School superintendents all over the country receive well over $350,000 for pushing paper.
There are loads of reasons why health care costs are high, but payment to docs are only a small part.
I have no objection to well-paid doctors. Between paying off school loans, paying malpractice insurance, paying for constant renewed education and certifications, high stress and long hours, I figure most deserve to make quite a bit over $200K per year.
It needs a barf alert.
You go to school for 8-12 years after HS, then internship and residencies for a few more before you are allowed to practice. Then when you do set up an office you have to pay the rent, buy equipment, pay a nurse, receptionist, bookkeeper, and a tax man at the very least.