Hospitals steal from those they should serve

When I read this, my first thought is not that UofL should offer more money to its surgeons.

My first thought is, rather, that the way to avoid such incongruity of care between rich (those served by Sub-urban, as my boss used to say) and poor (those who must go to University Hospital to receive emergency care--I include myself in their numbers) sectors of the population is to stop incentivizing it. As it is now, there is no incentive for doctors to remain part of a university system--even one as well-respected as UofL's--when Norton can open its little robe and display it's goods, including shorter work hours for more pay, more expensive surgeries, and more technology.

The way to stop the drain on doctors from the public to the private sector is to make all medical jobs government jobs. Then you have a system, like public education (at least in terms of pay scale), where pay is uniform and based on years of experience and educational level, NOT on how much money an individual doctor can bring to a hospital.

In short: hospitals are the Boss Tweeds of the medical system, and it is immoral, it does a disservice to Louisvillians in particular, and a capitalist medical system violates human rights in general. So let's stop this shit now: Single-Payer Health Insurance NOW. Check it out, dude.