How are you a pharmacist and not know that successful independents make a couple million or more? That's what gets taxed. Of course they don't take home that much. At the end of the day, they're going to take home a little over a hundred grand IF that much.
They don't make that much. I personally know several people that own their own pharmacies. None of them make that much. In fact, one of them just gave up, sold his store's clientele to a new CVS that was built down the street, and is making more as a CVS employee than the owner of an independent pharmacy.
If you know a pharmacist or two that clears over a million dollar, they are very fortunate. And they are not taxed 90%. The top income taxation rate is less than 40%. Social security taxation is capped at the first $100,000 earned. And in Texas there is no income tax. If they can make 7 figures and barely come out with $100k a year, they are doing something wrong and should hire a tax lawyer.
And by the way, you don't add jobs to the health care industry when you add 50 million peole to the system all at once. We can't create health care jobs instantaneously to support the 50 million we will add to the system. You can't automate the jobs of ER physicians, surgeons, and nurses.
No...but the jobs will lag behind the legislation not as much as you'd imagine. If the CVSs of the world knew today that 45 million new people with drug cards were going to show up, they would start planning tomorrow and start hiring in line with the new legislation. Those retail pharmacies are schemy mofos. Though my hospital wouldn't hire anyone. We added an entire wing to the hospital and my average census is now at 200. Still only one RPh in the evenings...lmao...
Now with practitioners, they will have to squeeze for a few years...but unless you are content with the way things are, at some point we have to strain for a few years to make things work. That's what happens when you try to fix a broken system. Like I said before - you have two choices; a little pain now, or devastation later. Let's leave it alone and see how things are when healthcare is 25% of GDP.
We already have a shortage as it is.
No we don't. That's quoting Dean Dipiro at USC. The new schools opening are quickly eliminating open jobs. The economy isn't helping. There are new grads all over the country that can't find jobs...many post on here.
And are you forgetting once again that we are trying to cut the costs that we already have without adding 15%. 15% sounds so minimal but it's 50 million Americans we are talking about.
15% is 15%. I think the system could handle an additional 15% without breaking.
Isn't that kinda what we do now, anyway? Really, wtf kind of bull**** thinking is that? Some people don't get healthcare as is. Others do - ergo, it is "rationed". I swear to god, that is the lamest buzz word of the damned century thus far. And our healthcare system could withstand much more stress being as though I can get appointments with a physician in 5 or 6 days. Let's add 15% more time to that...oh no, I might have to wait 7 days...
You have given no logic as for how we can add 50 mil to our system, save costs, and have no immediate increase in human capital in terms of health care personnel. I'm still waiting for your reasoning on that small but very important fact.
Well, I told you how it would save costs. You're just too predictably up Rush Limbaugh's ass to read something that flies in the face of your conservative ideology to recognize it. I know you are a conservative dittohead because you use words like "rationing." This alone makes me want to ignore you. But I like hearing the liberal/conservative sheep blather on like they are reading from some sort of groupthink script. Do continue...
