Talent Corporation or Talent Time Movie?

Taken from other blog: Talent Corporation? One more company established as to make use of tax payers money for their own pocket, do you think our Malaysian working abroad will turn back to Malaysia with low wages and high cost of living? Think again....

Ganesh
17 November 2010 at 8.09am

I personally know a close doctor who migrated to Australia.

When he was here, he was running a clinic. Most months, he would come home with ZERO. You see, in Malaysia, some doctors who run their own clinics actually suffer cause patients really can’t afford to pay well to keep the doctor’s business afloat (because most people still earn so little).

The doctor friend of mine had to, in a month, at least earn RM10,000 just to break even. Why? His rental alone was RM4500. Plus to pay two nurses was already RM2000. Then you add water, electricity, insurance etc etc, he had to come up with more than RM10,000 just to break even for the given month.

To make matters worse, if he charged a patient more than RM50, it was likely the patient won’t come back. So, you do the calculations lah and see how many patents he needs per day, for him to survive. Adding to that, don’t forget, he has to pay for the medicine suppliers too.

Everyday he has no money. He eat mixed rice everyday. That also, he eat vegetarian to keep his cost down. On lucky days, he will take one meat and 2 vege but he tries to keep it below RM5. Yes, that is a doctor. The person who suffers studying his MBBS for a million years and yet, when he works, he has to eat mixed rice.

Now he is in Australia. He makes rougly AUD$30,000 per month. That is RM100,000 per month.

Why is this so? Because the Australian government, through a medical insurance scheme, similiar to the UK’s NHS, is able to pay doctors well. At the same time, not burdening the rakyat. Each rakyat can afford the best medical care. So, both win win. Doctors are well paid and each and every citizen got either free or nominal paid access to the best medical care.

In Malaysia, we are more interested in buliding tall buildings. Yes, tall buildings. Lessening the burden of the rakyat is least priority.

You think the Doctor wants to come back? No amount of Talent Corporation can pay him RM100,000 lah