I agree.Price Controls are a bit too 'Communist' for my liking but the current pricing models of these professions (they all charge roughly the same) suggest there is no competition.
And Regulators in this country have hardly got a good track record. So no more quango's/empire building as far as I'm concerned.
Supply is the issue IMO....points are too high for school leavers to study these professions as the number of students is constrained. Open up that bottleneck, and allow those that qualify to practice whereveer they want in the country.....and then you'll have compeition
Health service are not very price sensitive; people don’t shop around on price.
There is a limited supply of GP’s and all of them, whether they have a medical card list (GMS) or not, receive a substantial proportion of their income from the state.
The payments for services should be cut but the amount of administration they have to do in order to deal with the HSE should also be looked at so that their costs are lowered at the same time as their income being cut. A large part of the reason for the higher costs of primary healthcare services in Ireland relative to most of the rest of Europe is our higher insurance costs, higher rents, higher utility costs and higher wage costs for support staff (practice nurses, receptionists, practice managers etc). It’s not all down to the GP trousering wads of cash (although many do).
The government has no place fixing prices and should stay out of the healthcare market completely (they shouldn’t directly fund, own or run any healthcare service.
Well said. Price controls have always failed and would only result in a shortage of supply. Prices are a result of supply and demand, and as you me ruin the supply of doctors is kept low artificially. This of course suits the GPs who are usually the ones most outspoken about reducing the points needed.
However, I find it an insult to my intelligence to suggest that you can tell by leaving cert points whether someone is suitable to be a GP or VRT or doctor. There are plenty of highly I tell invent people who do badly in their leaving Cerys due to dislexia, learning difficulties or simply having a few bad teachers.
There are plenty of highly I tell invent people who do badly in their leaving Cerys due to dislexia
Post of the year Chris
Doctors / vets / opticians, and indeed lawyers and accountants should be made to publish a schedule of their fees to ensure that there is a much greater degree of price competition within the professions
Then only rich people could become doctors; hardly a desirable outcome.In addition to dramatically reducing state subvention, medicine courses should be opened up, and become fully funded by tuition fees.
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 ....
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