URGENT: Save Medical Residency from Sequestration Cuts

[DoctwoB]

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Ask and you shall recieve: this just hit the web:
https://www.aamc.org/newsroom/reporter/march2012/276736/budget.html

10% cut to Medicare IME, and the complete elimination of children's hospital IME. No cuts at all to DME.

I don't know how I feel about this. IME has always seemed like kind of a scam to me, I'm not sure what expenses there that hospitals need to meet on top of our salaries. On the other hand I feel like when a resident is merely free labor, rather than free labor and a free $100,000/year on top of that, it could make residency an even more hostile enviornment than it already is.

I doubt an IME cut will affect residents much if at all. Unlike direct GME funding, there is no mandate to use said money on anything related to resident welfare or salary, it just goes straight to the hospitals bottom line. Administration may not be thrilled, but the PDs that directly control resident's life and work environments probably won't notice.

 

[CDI]

Quality trolls? You must be the coolest guy in your class....
No one was in favor of cutting salaries and you made a ridiculous comment. I would be in favor of cutting your salary, maybe that would stop you from buying all your blow up dolls.

Lame.

You seem to not digest the fact that money to medicare means money to residents. Instead of lowering the number of residents (less jobs = more people living off others) we should consider decrease the length or overall salaries for residents as reasonable alternatives.

 

[username456789]

Quality trolls? You must be the coolest guy in your class....
No one was in favor of cutting salaries and you made a ridiculous comment. I would be in favor of cutting your salary, maybe that would stop you from buying all your blow up dolls.

0/10. Nowhere to go but up.

 

[oldbearprofessor]

Ask and you shall recieve: this just hit the web:
https://www.aamc.org/newsroom/reporter/march2012/276736/budget.html

Well, just hit the web in March 2012

 

[IlDestriero]

Screw the rest of you guys, we got a 5 year deal. 😉
House Approves CHGME Reauthorization Bill February 8, 2013—The House Feb. 4 approved, 352-50, the Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013 (H.R. 297). The House voted on the legislation under suspension of the rules, limiting debate and amendments to expedite consideration, with the requirement that two-thirds of the chamber vote to advance the measure.

The bill extends the authorization for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program for five years. The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to advance the bill on Jan. 22 [see Washington Highlights, Jan. 25]. AAMC sent a Jan. 17 letter supporting the reauthorization in advance of the markup.

The House also approved on Feb. 4 the National Pediatric Research Network Act (H.R. 225), authorizing the National Institutes of Health to fund consortia of institutions conducting research on conditions and diseases affecting children. Representatives approved H.R. 225 by a vote of 375 to 27.

 

[Anigma07]

0/10. Nowhere to go but up.

I guess my comment hit a little too close to home. Keep ranking my comments, you probably have nothing better to do with your life.

Whoever is saying cut salaries should be slapped. Also, If you knew anything about business, you don't want a saturated working environment. You have no idea what your talking about and probably do not have any family or friends practicing medicine.

 

[Zedor]

I guess my comment hit a little too close to home. Keep ranking my comments, you probably have nothing better to do with your life.

Who carries ze ban stick around here?

 

[deleted307836]

I guess my comment hit a little too close to home. Keep ranking my comments, you probably have nothing better to do with your life.

Whoever is saying cut salaries should be slapped. Also, If you knew anything about business, you don't want a saturated working environment. You have no idea what your talking about and probably do not have any family or friends practicing medicine.

No one in this thread is advocating for cutting resident salaries. Where are you getting this? It seems you are the only one here who doesn't know what he is talking about.

 

[Anigma07]

Lame.

You seem to not digest the fact that money to medicare means money to residents. Instead of lowering the number of residents (less jobs = more people living off others) we should consider decrease the length or overall salaries for residents as reasonable alternatives.

No one in this thread is advocating for cutting resident salaries. Where are you getting this? It seems you are the only one here who doesn't know what he is talking about.

Read the quote above, how is that reading comp class working?

I'm done with this thread.

 

[Zedor]

"Cuts to graduate medical education funding will have a disproportionately negative impact on primary care physician residency training as teaching hospitals shift their limited number of training positions from primary care to more lucrative subspecialties," said Cain.

http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/...nment-medicine/20130301sequestrationcuts.html

 

[deleted307836]

I'm done with this thread.

👍

 

[yehhhboiii]

I'm done with this thread.

You're doing yourself a favor.

 

[evilbooyaa]

I'm done with this thread.

Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.

Like everyone else has stated, it's attitudes like yours that have ended us in this mess in the first place. Either keep trolling or keep living in your own fantasy.

 

[Anigma07]

Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.

Like everyone else has stated, it's attitudes like yours that have ended us in this mess in the first place. Either keep trolling or keep living in your own fantasy.

It's attitudes like yours that make physicians look weak. Instead of whining like a fairy go out and do something about this if you don't like it. If you're afraid of competition with lower residency spots, you probably should be-- you're not fit for competition. You can just sit by a computer and type away because you're too socially awkward to hold a public conversation.

 

[Perrotfish]

Screw the rest of you guys, we got a 5 year deal. 😉
House Approves CHGME Reauthorization Bill February 8, 2013—The House Feb. 4 approved, 352-50, the Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013 (H.R. 297). The House voted on the legislation under suspension of the rules, limiting debate and amendments to expedite consideration, with the requirement that two-thirds of the chamber vote to advance the measure.

The bill extends the authorization for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program for five years. The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to advance the bill on Jan. 22 [see Washington Highlights, Jan. 25]. AAMC sent a Jan. 17 letter supporting the reauthorization in advance of the markup.

The House also approved on Feb. 4 the National Pediatric Research Network Act (H.R. 225), authorizing the National Institutes of Health to fund consortia of institutions conducting research on conditions and diseases affecting children. Representatives approved H.R. 225 by a vote of 375 to 27.

Yes, but doesn't the program still needs to be funded for next year? If its a discretionary program congress has the discression not to sign the appropriations bill that actually fund the program they authorized.

Well, just hit the web in March 2012

Crap, I got the year wrong.

 

[evilbooyaa]

It's attitudes like yours that make physicians look weak. Instead of whining like a fairy go out and do something about this if you don't like it. If you're afraid of competition with lower residency spots, you probably should be-- you're not fit for competition. You can just sit by a computer and type away because you're too socially awkward to hold a public conversation.

LOL. That's enough of you for me. First person I've put on my ignore list before they got banned. Enjoy talking to a wall.

 

[CDI]

It's attitudes like yours that make physicians look weak. Instead of whining like a fairy go out and do something about this if you don't like it. If you're afraid of competition with lower residency spots, you probably should be-- you're not fit for competition. You can just sit by a computer and type away because you're too socially awkward to hold a public conversation.

Calm your uppity self down. You ain't ish, sit'down nephew.

 

[yehhhboiii]

It's attitudes like yours that make physicians look weak. Instead of whining like a fairy go out and do something about this if you don't like it. If you're afraid of competition with lower residency spots, you probably should be-- you're not fit for competition. You can just sit by a computer and type away because you're too socially awkward to hold a public conversation.

Right because it makes sense to ask people to pay $200,000 and spend 4 years of their life studying without any job prospects.