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Medical Costs in the United States

Discussion in 'Health Care' started by Kari Sims, Apr 3, 2019.

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  1. james M

    james M Banned

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    if you have any idea at all what your subject or point is why not let us know???
     
    james M, Jun 17, 2019
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    ??? what we have now is VA Medicare Medicaid etcetc, all govt socialist stuff. Do you understand??
     
    james M, Jun 17, 2019
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    2 simple reasons:
    1) we are much richer and have a lot to waste
    2) their socialism is more efficient than ours

    Do you understand now??
     
    james M, Jun 17, 2019
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  4. james M

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    translation: I have no idea what the subject was or what my point was
     
    james M, Jun 17, 2019
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  5. kazenatsu

    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Simple answer: The normal free market is not the most economically efficient in this case. It's more efficient for the government to pay for a part of it.
     
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  6. squidward

    squidward Well-Known Member

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    So you're volunteering to drastically cut your pay and send in the windfall to the government to help pay for it all?
     
    squidward, Jun 17, 2019
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    squidward Well-Known Member

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    We're talking about medical school debt not a house.
     
    squidward, Jun 17, 2019
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    Any evidence its 90%?
     
    Distraff, Jun 17, 2019
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  9. Derideo_Te

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    :applause:
     
    Derideo_Te, Jun 18, 2019
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    medical school debt is minimal given an MD's income!!
     
    james M, Jun 18, 2019
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    It's simple supply and demand. the world has doctors without paying them $400k year like we do.
     
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    dear, you forgot to tell us what "this case is"????????????? How is it possible you clean forgot the most obvious thing??
     
    james M, Jun 18, 2019
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    A medical degree is the most expensive degree yes, but given even newly graduated doctors earn more than enough to pay off that debt within a few years (at most), that's no kind of explanation. The reason the vast majority of college-goers don't choose medicine is because they cannot meet the academic criteria, much less the demands of what is a challenging and heavy workload over a very long degree course - up to seven years.
     
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    I cant say since you forgot to tell us what "it" is!! wonder why your posts lead nowhere??
     
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    james M, Jun 18, 2019
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    Because Americans expect the world, and opportunistic businesses take advantage of that.
     
    crank, Jun 18, 2019
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    and you have to be around sick and dying people all day long and not get depressed.
     
    james M, Jun 18, 2019
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    somebody wants free ****
     
    squidward, Jun 18, 2019
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    Nobody wants to do the work but they want the service for cheep
     
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    You got a couple hundred post tax dollars sitting around, after foregoing many years of earnings?
     
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    That is true, yet you spoke about some free market supply and demand that dictates earnings.
    Odd
     
    squidward, Jun 18, 2019
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  21. crank

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    and cheap :)
     
    crank, Jun 18, 2019
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  22. squidward

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    And that
     
    squidward, Jun 18, 2019
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    And that. It's not a 'pretty' job. You need to be tough, and your hands get very dirty.
     
    crank, Jun 18, 2019
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  24. squidward

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    Dupe
     
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  25. Derideo_Te

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    Yet another load of bovine excrement!

    https://careergps.mass.edu/infographic

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    Doctors take 16.5 years to pay off their college loans for Med School.
     
    Derideo_Te, Jun 19, 2019
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