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News to me as well. I wonder if they tell people about this before they sign the WICHE paperwork.
Wow, is this for real? I'm from New Mexico and I'd like to practice in New Mexico, but if they are going to take 10% of my gross I might be a little hesitant.
I think most Americans can get behind these ideas. It is common sense, but it is so far removed from the arena of political ideas that no major candidate has a platform even close to this. If you know of somebody who thinks this way, let me know because he has my vote.
Wow, is this for real? I'm from New Mexico and I'd like to practice in New Mexico, but if they are going to take 10% of my gross I might be a little hesitant.
If I'm not mistaken, these tax cuts were made permanent.If you think 10% is bad, just wait until the feds let the current tax cut expire and your FIC rate goes from 33% or 25% back up to the 39% it was 8 years ago. Gotta punish those people that make over 100k. So 39%+10% state tax on your practice + 6.2% Social Security (and the practice has to match that 6.2% for every employee) + about 2% medicare tax. So the way I figure it, no matter where you live, you won't be bringing home half of your money.
Especially when you have 'socialized' education?
Proponents of univ health always say its for the children and poor, which yes it is not the best thing, but by FORCING you to work a month or two a year to pay for others healthcare is taking away from how you want to live your life
The education system in this country is severely flawed which is exactly why I don't want the government to control health care. Major changes need to be implemented as access to care is way under par but I do not believe that socialized or any other government control is the way to go.
- Here's a free market conundrum for you BOOTSTRAP/CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY types: A recent study published showed that the obese and smokers actually cost less in total care spending than healthy citizens, because they live shorter lives."
Wow. You have no idea what you're talking about.
We don't have UHC, but we still pay twice as much in total healthcare spending (government + private insurance) than any other first world country. Our government spending in healthcare accounts for 60% of the USA's total spending. Why? Well there's a number of factors but most of them have to do with our messed up insurance system. Our uninsured go to the ER for primary care, or emergencies, and even if they don't have money, the hospitals treat them. Now the ER is in order of magnitudes more costly than preventative or even primary care. Our government, through medicare/medicaid, subsidizes the treatments of the uninsured. As unintuitive as it sounds, it's actually LESS COSTLY TO INSURE THE UNINSURED!
Secondly, have you heard about the proposed plan to incorporate UHC? They want to retain the current Medicaid and Medicare system, and then add a 2% income tax. Even if you made 200,000 dollars a year, it'd still be cheaper than paying for an individual healthcare plan. And everyone is insured.
The funny thing is, we all sit here and complain about what the next president is going to do, but how many of us actually went out and campaigned for who we thought would do the best job? How many of us even went out and voted in the caucuses? The only way to get change is to go out and make it happen, yet we all just sit around waiting for it to happen.
The pay cuts are already happening now, and we don't even have UHC yet. Every couple of months, I get an e-mail from the American College of Surgeons where they talk about declining reimbursements for their surgeries. This is real and its happening everywhere; UHC won't magically bring this on. So the reality is that we ARE getting reimbursed less every year, health care costs ARE going up every year, and more Americans become uninsured every year.Then the government will cut your pay and won't have to compete with anyone to keep you around. They will continue to have raging orgies with current HMO administrators who will likely be kept on board. And then when the boomers keep rolling in, you'll just work longer to keep their crappy bodies keep going.
Anyone ever look into rationing care which now UHC countries started to do?
Honestly, if my medical school debt was non-existent, I would not mind at all taking a pay-cut to make it happen.
Why does the goverment have to fix everything? See also...Why do we look for the goverment to come fix everything when something goes wrong?
Why does the goverment have to fix everything? See also...Why do we look for the goverment to come fix everything when something goes wrong?
although im not a part of the healthcare field yet, i have been a member of the uninsured for years, the working uninsured. a significant portion of the population in this country is in this boat. the biggest problem i have with republicans is that they are not providing any altervative policies to this problem. what more libertarian type policies will better the situation of the growing uninsured in the US and has it worked somewhere else?
so how about a compromise. use a mixture of tax breaks, deregulation for peopl that can afford it and a government plan that provides a safety net for older sicker americans that can not afford insurance. I used to work in a county hospital and you would be surprised how many people i met that quit their jobs or got divorced to qualify for medicaid, regular insurance was beyond their range.
The problem I have with that is that it leaves people out, the most needy amoungest us. I'm not sure if politically viable I just think having the biggest strongest (even now) in the world we can figure out a way to have coverage. We spend the largest portion of our gdp on healthcare but can't cover everyone. we can do better for ourselves and if the private market can't do it than the government should.
Basically, it seems like universal health care is every affluent hippie era baby-boomer's wet dream. They've worked (regardless of the field/profession) for 25-30 years. They've made their income, and then some. They have their summer homes. Their kids are off to prep school college.
Most of their spawn are also demanding the same thing.
Unfortunately, the beginning cusp of the baby boom generation was all about themselves and no one else. And they're loud. And they talk. A LOT. This explains a lot.
You are going to leave someone out regardless. It's not a matter of the warm fuzzies allowing us to cover everyone. Reality is that you can try and cover all the elderly and sick but that leaves working families either without care or so strapped by health care taxes/expenses that they can't afford to put food on the table or send their kids to college.
It sucks but you can't have it both ways.
For college kids, get a job and some responsibility... You pre-meds don't have any real responsibilities except taking tests.
Make sure everybody points this out to crackheads on Obama's website. Everyone here has to spread this message. There is no such thing as a free lunch and gotta make sure these old farts get what they deserve. NOTHING. Should have saved for retirement you lazy *****s.
Why does the goverment have to fix everything? See also...Why do we look for the goverment to come fix everything when something goes wrong?
Why? Cause the government is currently dictating how much doctors get paid... it's called medicare. The private health insurance companies pay a PERCENTAGE of medicare reimburisement (So the government actually pays better!)
So it's the government fault this mess is the way it is. The combination of EMTALA and medicare is anvil and hammer combo we currently have.
Don't know if I agree with that. The system is dysfunctional at the moment and health care is too expensive. Whether it be a stay or operation in the hospital that wipes out a families life savings or just paying insurance premiums that can easilly exceed 1K a month in premiums. Of course socialized medicine is not the best solution and may not even be a feasible solution.
What people should be concentrating on is curbing inflation and lowering the cost of living. More money in your pockets and a stronger dollar = affordable health care. Thats really the solution to most of our problems.
Whatever happened to the old gen making sure the next gen has it better. Baby boomers, the biggest mess ever created.