Fair compensation in Belgiums healthcare system a need for reform

Lailuma Sadid
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Brussels (The Brussels Morning Newspaper): Doctors salaries are complicated with differences based on specialty and extra fees for patients. The payment system is confusing causing frustration for both doctors and patients. Future spending plans may need major changes to fix these problems.

The question of how much doctors should be paid certainly starts with the premise that doctors who save lives with their skill and sacrifice must be earning .Most people would go along with that as long as it’s not them who have to fork over enormous bills for doctors visits Health sector reports are full of complaints about doctors but most of the time this is nothing more than the usual envy. Another friend referred me to sources showing rapid rises in salaries over the past decade .  It has benefited some people and left many others behind And doctors are paid quite well by the government although there may be additional payment for working overtime. But the question really is how much money doctors should earn in a system that everyone is both broke and morally irresponsible.

What is a fair salary for doctors in Belgium’s healthcare system?

The real problem is that its difficult to assess how much money physicians should earn. Compared to other careers such as the teaching profession and judicial duties they look out of form. Like Belgium some doctors actually earn regular allowances from the government an index linked salary comparable to that of the Prime Minister. Different types of doctors earn different amounts. For example doctors who specialize in an area of technology earn more than those with broader patient contact. Elasticity of demand for medical fees The idea that doctors the supply behavior of these two classes within participation is also little different today. Taking these tests on a holiday cost fund a patient to pay course fees all over again which is. But those hospitals received a large amount of money Lau wrote.Each of these three sectors has its own system one fragment they are all fractions that have nothing to do with each other and so on so it looks like the whole health insurance puzzle has to be suffered by doctors.But other news leaks tell us that the new government will increase health spending by 3 percent in 2029. This is despite efforts to get rid of money leakage. So we are going to need some big changes.Salaries take up a relatively large part of the bill for medical treatment. The mode of practice among physicians has started to collapse special will play havoc with people whose incomes are big but who still want the best.

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Lailuma Sadid is a former diplomat in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Embassy to the kingdom of Belgium, in charge of NATO. She attended the NATO Training courses and speakers for the events at NATO H-Q in Brussels, and also in Nederland, Germany, Estonia, and Azerbaijan. Sadid has is a former Political Reporter for Pajhwok News Agency, covering the London, Conference in 2006 and Lisbon summit in 2010.
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