Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.
1) catholic schools for racists 2) nondenom schools that dont teach you science 3) hippie schools that dont teach you to read, inexplicably 87% matriculation @ top 20 colleges 4) hogwarts, costs 55k/yr, explicably 99% matriculation @ top 20 colleges
Having gone to a really shitty private school is so funny. People hear “private school” and rightly think my parents were well off but instead of playing lacrosse or whatever I was learning young earth creationism from a Russian antisemite in portables outside a church
There's an idea in some circles that all we have to do to fix healthcare is get rid of the evil insurance companies and all of our problems will be solved.
There is no country on Earth with single-payer healthcare where the average doctor salary is $375,000. Not happening. Something has to give.
The doctor makes $200k a year because they charge thousands of dollars more for a procedure than they should. The health insurance CEO doesn’t want to pay it and tries to dump it on you. You fight with the health insurance over *who* pays the high cost and not *why* the cost is high.
doctors are a self regulating profession who decide their own entry requirements. congress also caps the number of new physicians with residency requirements
There's an idea in some circles that all we have to do to fix healthcare is get rid of the evil insurance companies and all of our problems will be solved.
There is no country on Earth with single-payer healthcare where the average doctor salary is $375,000. Not happening. Something has to give.
The doctor makes $200k a year because they charge thousands of dollars more for a procedure than they should. The health insurance CEO doesn’t want to pay it and tries to dump it on you. You fight with the health insurance over *who* pays the high cost and not *why* the cost is high.
its ~12.5k in a high tax state, 15k in a state w/o income tax. there is a big difference between someone earning 8k/mo after student loan payments and someone earning 5k/mo
its also not even clear that having this high a threshold improves physician quality all that much, what it does it make the field mainly attractive to people who know how to navigate the baroque entry requirements - chiefly the children of doctors
i agree - but it would make a huge difference for healthcare quality and access! i think all this is mainly about industry prestige tbh, esp for the late career board physicians who decide entry requirements into the field
the median salary for a physician in family medicine is 250k. for basically all specialists, its 300k+. you can pay back a couple hundred grand in student debt in a few years by being on the low end of the wage distribution for a doctor.
