Yeah, what could be sweeter than spending six years in grad school and residency to make a whopping $75-$125K/year. All that and you have the privilege of paying tens of thousands a year in malpractice insurance, but you had better not ever make an honest mistake, because then you can't get coverage at all and all that schooling goes right down the drain. You're better off just being a longshoreman instead.
Right now, yes. Wait until we go single-payer, which this bill puts us on the path toward. In the future, when they squeeze payments to physicians, that will be the norm. When I lived in Sweden around the turn of the century, doctors made $40-55K.
That was a pretty good salary for 1900 Sweden isn't the US. Sweden (I'm guessing, I haven't looked it up) never had extremely high MD salaries. barfo
Average salary for general\family practitioner is $122,000-$144,000....That is hardly considered the wealthy elite.... Now a specialist? Well they are making up to twice as much or more....thus the reason why so many doctors go into specialist fields.... and I don't expect that salary to go up under Obamacare...not with them jerking Medicaid payments, malpractice insurance (which strangely is not? addressed in this massive health care overhaul)...quite the reverse actually..... I don't see a lot of incentive here for people to go to school for that period of time and under that kind of debt expense and having to cover massive liabilities for a $75-100k job.....
