If everyone gets free health care, will our doctors be paid less? will they move to make more money?

Am I right in thinking you're talking primarily about Canada's health care system? I ask this because a lot of people seem to believe that Canadians get "free" health care because we don't have to pay for a doctor's visit out of our own pockets.

Canada, like any other nation with social medicine, does not provide health care "for free". We pay a lot of taxes for our health care system. Physicians get paid a set rate per patient visit.

Now, some doctors in Canada do move to places like the US where there is no socialized health care system - but just as many doctors don't and there are even some US doctors who move to Canada because they see our health care system as being a lot more humane.

That's one of the problems... Not to mention, with private health care, there is more money in the system for research and better equipment. That's the problem they are having in Canada, they send a lot of high risk pregnancys here, to the states because they don't have the resources to handle it...

No one is offering free health care they are offering a universal health care plan that would allow citizens to have the same insurance that the congress and senate have. It has nothing to do with Doctors and Hospitals, just the insurance.

Where are they going to move to? Most of the rest of the industrialized countries already have free health care, and they won't make more money in the 3rd world.

It depends on the system that is put in place. They can stand to make a bit less money and still be very wealthy. Where would they move to - everywhere else, doctors make a lot less than in the US.

Noone gets "Free" anything in the US except the damn foreigners moving here bleeding us dry.

a salary will be set for them and in doing so they will be paid the same amount if they see 1 patient or 20 per day. might really slow things down wouldn't you say mr doodles

Nothing is free--expect higher taxes