Congressional Battle

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Probably most of you are aware of the undergoing battle for budget adjustment and debt ceiling raise in the US government. No matter what the outcome is, there will be substantial cuts for states, involving medicare and medicaid. The obama administration seems to be compromising to a totally new system of healthcare, no matter what he does. I am just an undergraduate that has a dream of becoming a dentist and indeed will become a dentist. Moreover, it cannot be denied that there is an interest from all of us to essentially be part of an upper middle class. There is no correlation between the love we can have for our profession and the monetary outcome of it, simply i think we all deserve to be paid for the hard work we put in for eight years of our lives, and that makes us different from most of the population. As mentioned before, i am just an undergraduate but the arising political issues are worrying me quiet bit, and i would love to hear from some of you involved in dentistry way deeper than me. What will happen to thousands of dentist that work for big medical institutions when the government cuts 100 billion dollars on medicaid and medicare? What will happen to thousands of dentist when taxes are raised on them, making their overhead probably 50 or 60 percent? yes they still make money but the beer in the store wont cost 5 dollars anymore... What is the future of dentistry?
Thank you all

 

[tinman831]

Too many feathers will be ruffled to be making any entitlement cuts. These politicians are trying to get re-elected soon. So there won't be any major changes when they're trying to win voters.

 

[Daurang]

Dentists will do just fine. There will be further cut to schools and services while the public unions will try to preserve all the ridiculous benefits they're extorting from the poor taxpayers. More students are already skipping colleges because it's not worth it anymore. School districts in the USA are cutting back to 4-days school week to preserve cash while schools in China are expanding to 6 days week. The proper question should what is the future of America like? Just look at Greece and California for a preview of what the USA will be like.

 

[mokhoras]

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[CaliDDS1986]

Just look at Greece and California for a preview of what the USA will be like.

It's a shame, but most likely the undeniable truth at this point. The politicians only care about getting re-elected, they can give a damn about what happens to the rest of the country.