Impeding changes to our Health Care system

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Did you know that private (non-specialized) physicians who are on-call (not working)
for the Central Oregon Trauma Center gets $1,000 per night, regardless of whether there is a call-in or not.
If there is a call-in (or even a phone consultation) the physician is then on his own (capitalism) clock
to be paid whatever is his "current and customary" rate will bear.

So what's the problem? That is how the system is set up in most places, but most places do not pay the on-call doc anything, they are just on Trauma Call and get only what they can get from the people who have insurance, the rest of the treatment they give is free. They call it Charity Call in a lot of places, and it is a condition of being a participating doc on staff and having admitting privileges for their regular patients. They have no choice but to participate. Some hospitals have docs who are employees, but that is not really the norm, and they may get paid something for call.