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Why the hell does Louisiana only have one pediatric cardiologist?
Because it's a for-profit healthcare system and that's not where they pay pediatric cardiologists what they feel they're worth.
And when you're a pediatric cardiologist, you pretty much dictate your salary.
What do you mean? Are public hospitals also for-profit in Louisiana? How can an employee dictate thier salary?
Edit: also why the fuck am I downvoted? I can't ask questions?
They can dictate their salary because hospitals need them, not the other way around.
The entire US health care system is for profit only.
They dictate their salary by leaving and finding people who will pay them.
Pediatric cardiology is a difficult specialty and it turns out that people are willing to spend quite a lot of money when their children have heart problems.
Difficult, with a small supply of doctors and a high demand from patients. What would you pay to save your child's life?
I can't give you a breakdown of the numbers but, some of the public hospitals in the state have been privatized, yes.
Smart people don't want to raise families in states designed to be at the bottom of lists like education, jobs, medicine, and happiness
But hey, I'm sure the people still living there have owned the libs so many times, it's all worth it
The title says "one of the only..." which I think they mean "one of the few..."
It's not a very good state to live in.
I'd say it's the worst.
Maybe for the same reason they now have one fewer?
The very end of the article said "Now there are two pediatric cardiologists in the state", which implies there were three before.