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  • Unknown Member

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    July 26, 2009 at 9:14 pm

    Not trying to disparage actors or athletes. They deserve every penny they earn. Supply and demand dictates their salaries, just as it should dictate ours. I am being sarcastic when I say there should be a special tax on actors. I’m not looking for someone else to pay for my healthcare. Just expressing my frustration in the proposed 15% professional fee cut to radiologists while anesthesiologists (and some other specialists) get a hike. The government is trying to artificially manipulate our salaries downward (as we are the scapegoat in the escalation in healthcare costs).

    And btw Highway, there is a market for our activities as well as actors and I don’t believe the government should stand in the way of the law of supply and demand on our end only.

    And raYzor, if we have truly decoupled what we do for patients from how much and how/who pays for it, how come plastic surgeons do so well?