In America, hospital workers have freedom to decide how much pay they get.
How is that?
Pay is different at different hospitals and medical centers. Go to one that pays more and has the benefits you want.
Negotiate your pay with the hospital/medical center. There is even a line on the employment application form where you can write down the amount of pay you want.
Join a health care union and work to get wages increased through the union.
http://www.amednews.com/article/20100222/business/302229968/6/The point is, while the U.S. government suggests wages, they don't force them on anybody except temporarily for emergencies. The closest they come is the minimum wage for general laborers.
When you have a government that takes money from the people through taxes, so that benefits to the people can appear to be free, the people might be happy with the benefits that they receive. But, they are also unhappy that they cannot keep the benefits of their own labor. For example, a healthy person who loses part of his pay to the medical tax, might never get any benefit, because he is healthy. Such loss of one's labor causes an apathetic mood in the people. They don't work as hard. They don't care about the quality of work that they do. This is one of the major reasons why America became as powerful as it has. The people got to keep most of their wages, so they felt that they were really working for something for themselves.
Besides this, when government controls money, there is more opportunity for government people to siphon off some of the funds, secretly, for their own personal use. Government medical regulators stand to benefit the most.
If you want a powerful nation, let the people keep the money they earn. America could become powerful beyond imagination if they would only drop income taxes to only 5%. Why? Because the people would work hard, compete quality-wise, and generally do a good job, because they could keep almost all of their pay.
