Not a Liberal/Conservative Problem, but a Government/Bureaucracy Problem

When 80% of the top 10 salaries in the US are physician specialties combined with the lowest unemployment rate of any major career, it smells of a shortage.

It may not be a nefarious conspiracy but nonetheless the effect is a pernicious lack of physicians resulting in excess compensation and lack of access to affordable and efficient healthcare providers.

And I'm talking about one very specific piece of healthcare that is incredibly inefficient.

Think about it in this simple manner: You have around a million physicians in the US that are making much more than their developed country counterparts....lets say that excess amount due to what I have discussed is $100,000 extra a year in physician compensation so that gross number divided by the US population is around $330 per year per American to subsidize your excess income beyond the competitive global service you provide.

 

4 Years of Medical School plus a few years of Residency income versus a lifetime of virtually guaranteed employment in the highest paid jobs in America with a $300k in Student loans

versus 3 Years of Law School at $200k in loans, and/or 2 years of an MBA program at $150k of loans.

The financial tradeoff is still superior in the medical field.

If it was not a financially lucrative situation, acceptance rates would be falling.

 

Ahh..the personal attack and it must be jealousy. Then entitled young doctor's true colors come out.

Anyone that says it is simply JEALOUS.

Lets analyze your life decisions...after you complete your training you will go to a box of an office and do one of 10 procedures, and be paid per procedure you do like an assembly line worker. The next day you will do 10 procedures again including cutting someone open, having their bodily fluids flung all over you again. The next week, month, year and decade will be this simply monotony.

Doing the same 3-10 procedures, 5-10 times a day for 30 years. That is your life. To me that is a repetitive stress injury of the mind. Not a creative and or scalable existence but a mouse in a cage doing the same thing over and over for little bits of cheese.

Instead I am an entrepeneur and own and expand businesses....what I do today is expanded on what was done years and years ago....a creative, evolving professional life. That is what drives me.

This all came to light as I am responsible for my many employees and saw the needs of people and the costs and the lack of ability to see doctors and recieve healthcare in the manner it would be provided. Understanding failed systems, cartels and finding ways to break them is a passion of mine.

I believe bringing down prices to consumers and providing choice is the greatest moral achievement one can accomplish. By doing that you leave a few extra dollars a day in their pocket which over time can result in wealth, an education or starting a business and being part of a middle class.

But you go ahead and think that the extra income you make relative to what the value you provide is just coming out of thin air and not off the backs of Americans that are being chipped away.

But i'm just jealous of course.

 

So if a Physician reimbursment is $500 because of a lack of supply of orthodpedic surgeons, you are able to do 5 a day at a margin of 80%,
that is $2,000 a day, $10,000 a week and $40,000 a month or $480,000
a year.

I would like to see that slashed by 50% and I still don't believe it would be a travesty if Orthopedic Surgeon's salaries dropped to $240,000 for 5 procedures a day.

If you don't think $240,000 a year for doing five procedures a day, five days a week is enough for a repetitive, unimaginitive profession then I don't know what to say.

If there were twice the number of ortho surgeons it would probably work but as of now the wait is till weeks to see these guys. More doctors at lower salaries is better all around.

 

The irony from the entitled surgeon crying about having 100%
Job security, the country and people subsidizing his salary and then
Crying about when wants to get paid closer to the value of
What he brings to the table at $240,000 a year.

I'm all for huge incomes if value is provided beyond ones compensation.

The relative value for your service is inflated in the US because a lack of supply

Enjoy the good times till someone puts a sledgehammer through the cartel you defend.

 

Physicians are the highest paid profession in the country.

Someone is paying you to see these people that you're seeing.

You're more entitled sounding then any of them.