From: anuchit@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Anuchit Anuchitanukul)
Subject: Re: Bangkok Post Nov 23: Doctors leaving govt services in drove
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:43:17 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.185303.5560@news2.cis.umn.edu> bunt0003@student.tc.umn.edu () writes:
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>Does anyone agree with me that our government should put more caps on
>those greedy doctors.  

You clearly have a socialist (communist?) mind.  I know that many
doctors are greedy but it doesn't mean that every doctor who left
public hospitals for a better-paying job in private hospitals are
all greedy.  Do you know how much the salary of a doctor in a
public hospital is?  Anyone can't hardly live with that low salary, 
epecially in Bangkok.  What if they have a family to support,
children school bills to pay, a mortaged home, etc.?

>They should be required to work for the public
>hospital for at least ten to fifteen years before leaving for a private
>sector.  I think the government subsidizes without enough condition.  

Why don't you bond them for life?  When one gets a MD degree, one gets
a life-sentence in public hospital for free.  There is a similarity
between this and  marriage.  Do you know that the law clearly says that 
any bond or contract cannot be used to force a person to marry?  Moreover,
no matter how tight the marriage contract is written, the person who
breaks the bond do not have to (and can't be legally forced to) pay
any settlement to the other person.  Do you know why the law was written
that way (i.e. what is the spirit of that law)?  ... Because the people
who wrote the law realized that forced-marriage will not be a happy one 
and will finally ruin two people's life (one may even end up killing the 
other) and they didn't want a person to marry just because he/she doesn't 
want to pay the settlement. 

Scholarships too (including this kind of indirect subsidy to medical doctor
study) should not come with any obligations.  Japanese's law, for example,
clearly states that no company including the Japanese goverment can draw
any scholarship contract which requires the grantee to work or pay back
the company.  People should work for a company because they really want
to work for the company (or because of their gratitude for the company's
scholarship), not because they are forced by some kind of contract and do not 
want to pay the bond-breaking settlement. 

>Also maybe we should tax those private hospitals ten times more than now and
>use that fund to support our public hospitals.
>What do you people think?
>Thian

I disagree with this kind of policy: too many goverment regulations, 
too heavy tax, etc.  If you tax private hospitals ten times of what it is 
today, nobody will go into this business.  Then what happens?  Do the
goverment have enough money to build enough hospitals on their own?
You can use the same argument with other business and your ideal goverment
will end up running everything in the country (perfectly fits socialism/
communism ideology).

The goverment should focus and try to enforce regulations more on some
*other things* like the environment ... 

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