Hello,
While I appreciate that I'm referring to categories of highly educated people, many of whom studied for a long time and deserve to earn a good living as a result of this ....
I strongly believe that it's time that: Doctors, Dentists & other types of medical professionals, along with Vets were both regulated and forced to reduce their fees. When I refer to regulation, I don't mean in the sense of regulating their performance in their specialist field as I think this is already catered for - but more, that they be regulated, in terms of the fees they charge, the fact that they should have to advertise their fees outside their place of work and that there should be some form of independent party who gets a say on what they can put their prices up to.
Experience time and time again over the years as shown me that:
- Almost none of the professionals in the categories I've mentioned, publish their list of fees somewhere that I can review them, prior to entering their premises and most likely, becoming their customer (save for Smile Dental, who I thankfully discovered a year or two back).
- No independent party seems to have any influence or control over what they charge their customers and I've not seen any real competition on prices, unless one opts to go outside of RoI ... I read regularly about significant cost saving opportunities, if you take your business to Northern Ireland for example, while traveling to mainland Europe appears to offer furher savings (easier said than done, when you need a vet in a hurry for example !).
What do people think, is it time there were independent regulators or review boards in place, to monitor pricing at the various professional offices mentioned and perhaps have to approve price increases etc ?
Thanks
Mr. Earl.
While I appreciate that I'm referring to categories of highly educated people, many of whom studied for a long time and deserve to earn a good living as a result of this ....
I strongly believe that it's time that: Doctors, Dentists & other types of medical professionals, along with Vets were both regulated and forced to reduce their fees. When I refer to regulation, I don't mean in the sense of regulating their performance in their specialist field as I think this is already catered for - but more, that they be regulated, in terms of the fees they charge, the fact that they should have to advertise their fees outside their place of work and that there should be some form of independent party who gets a say on what they can put their prices up to.
Experience time and time again over the years as shown me that:
- Almost none of the professionals in the categories I've mentioned, publish their list of fees somewhere that I can review them, prior to entering their premises and most likely, becoming their customer (save for Smile Dental, who I thankfully discovered a year or two back).
- No independent party seems to have any influence or control over what they charge their customers and I've not seen any real competition on prices, unless one opts to go outside of RoI ... I read regularly about significant cost saving opportunities, if you take your business to Northern Ireland for example, while traveling to mainland Europe appears to offer furher savings (easier said than done, when you need a vet in a hurry for example !).
What do people think, is it time there were independent regulators or review boards in place, to monitor pricing at the various professional offices mentioned and perhaps have to approve price increases etc ?
Thanks
Mr. Earl.