-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [MBZ] prescription costs Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 11:02:41 -0400 From: Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> The military will pick up the tab if the student agrees to give them some number of years as a military doc, and I think something like the Indian Health Service might do that too but not sure. There are some options like that, but none of them address the emerging needs. The main issue is that a lot of stuff is being pushed down to primary care docs who do not really make enough to pay back loans, the opportunity cost, and to make a reasonable (and here that can be defined different ways, but think about other things you could be doing with your education and intelligence) income and have a life (no 80-100hr weeks). They might make $100k a year. Or go be a drug rep and make 2x that with half the effort, or work for a drug company, or an investment bank right out of college and bypass the next 7-10 years of more school and debt... you get the idea. All that said, the idea of gummint generally paying for med school will not have a lot of positive effects due to a variety of reasons (you can figure that aspect out easily enough). It would make more sense to churn out a load of physician assistant types who could handle a lot of the snotty noses, belly aches, and low-end damages that a real doc does not need to waste time on or devote a lot of overhead to. Put a PA-in-a-box in every Walmart or CVS and you could cut costs tremendously while triaging a lot of mundane sorts of things, and give the gomers some place to go. --R On 7/8/12 12:38 AM, G Mann wrote:
Question: Wouldn't the population be better served if the government offered to carry the education cost for anyone who wanted to become a doctor?
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