If the salaries of doctors are inflated by healthcare costs, which I think are accepted as being inflated by drug companies, which pharmacies get their drugs from...wouldn't it make sense that if medicine were even partly socialized, healthcare costs would be forced down, dragging down both doctor AND pharmacist salaries?
It's more of a triangle that has 3 inseparable corners. Well, a square, if you want to include the insurance companies, since I don't see them as ever being totally cut out of the picture. Either way, I'm going to pharm school in the fall, and my salary will probably be a little higher than what current graduates are getting now, but I imagine it will top out or even go down within 10 years. Well, if healthcare costs stay as they are, and they are only going up.
Anyways, there are separate discussions going on in this thread; no, it's not harder to get into pharmacy school now, it's just that they're looking for a particular type of person. This does not necessarily mean one with stellar academics. I had a 3.2 gpa. A friend of mine applied for medical school with a 3.95 gpa and 31 mcat, and didn't get into any schools. She sucked at interviews, was the problem. No set of statistics guarantees getting into anything, is what I've learned.
Sorry, that was nasty long.