you have not idea what you're talking about. you're not out there looking for jobs this year. you have no idea JUST HOW MUCH salaries have already dropped. how partnership tracks have disappeared. and now more taxes?
once you actually DO something (sitting in your room and reading med school physiology doesn't count) - once you WORK in the real world and have YOUR CASH taken away from you. and have NURSES say that they are just as good as you at your job in PUBLIC political statements and pay their lobbies to change laws so they DON't need our supervision anymore, you won't be so smug.
real information? look at any of the statements released by the AANA. look at the statements released by their current president.
the world will not change overnight. but, this is my career. for the next 30 years. and the world will certainly change by then.
as i see it, physicians in this country will begin to occupy the same socioeconomic strata as european physicians (you know, the very best of whom are coming here against unbelievable difficulty cause practicing in their countries sucks). salaries will drop to 100-150ish for all, at best.
the wealthy who are wiling to pay cash and not wait or not have the underqualified, lower intelligence people who will fill the profession (as the best and brightest go for more financially rewarding professions) will have their own class of physicians. i predict this will keep about 5% of our ranks well compensated.
this will not happen overnight. or in 5 years. but, it will happen. as an inevitability of attempting to socialize a country which has lost it's economic edge in the world, has a massive population of undereducated and entitled, tens of millions of illegals siphoning public services, a superwealthy class that gets out of paying most of what they earn (many made their money by STEALING through the ponzi scheme that is our stock market). i'm not talking about the professionals making 252k/yr. i'm talking about the multimillionarres. and now, obama is going to get 3 trillion dollars out of nowhere and give it out to the people (while taking even more from the most productive individuals in society and companies). this will produce a disincentive to the people who want to produce real goods/svc and make real money. at the same time it will produce an incentive for people who don't want to work or produce anything. companies will leave the US at an even greater rate than they are jumping ship now (as we have the largest corporate tax burden in the world) due to the clean energy taxes.
i kind of feel badly for everyone in med school now. especially M1s. by the time you're out, you will have 250k in debt at 7% rates. your salaries will be 50% lower than what they are now. by that time the tax and spend will spread to all classes and your taxes will be massive. you will buy a ****ty 3 bedroom 1 bath house and drive 10 year old hondas. you will vacation once a year, for 1 week at the jersey shore. your children will go to mediocre public schools (obama will take education money and make really bad schools into mediocre ones at best). you will have crappy government medical care (you won't be able to afford the best care, which will be reserved for the wealthy). SS will be bankrupt and you will not see a penny of what you put in.
on the bright side, you will always have a job. and will always be able to pay for food. and have indoor plumbing. ahh, the american dream.
I'm a realist - the world will not change overnight just because Sebelius has been tapped as the new HHS. There are more pressing issues than chopping off anesthesiologists at the knees so that CRNAs can get a leg up.
The chicken little attitude on this board is almost laughable.
