re: Sultan (name of guy at my work) weighs in on the healthcare debate

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Someone else asked Sultan what would happen to doctors if we had universal health care, and if they would still be paid well, and if it would be worth it for younger people to go into the medical field and take on all that debt and years of education. Sultan said that people who go into the medical profession for the money are doing it for the wrong reasons. Sultan said that while doctors and such would still be paid good salaries, that he hopes most people would go into the medical profession because they want to help people, and for the greater good, and not because of the big pay checks. And then he said no one would take on any med school debt because college would be free as well. 

When someone asked Sultan how this would be paid for, he went with the usual "tax the wealthy" line and said it would pay for itself because profit would be taken out of the equation for health care so prices would no longer be gouged and inflated so corporations can make massive profits.

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All true.

Congress actually sets the profit margin of blue Cross et al.
It's more than twice what Medicare can make.