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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
In 10-20 years from now, there is going to be a huge shortage of doctors. There is a large percentage of the population that is moving into their retirement years. Insurance companies have been paying less and less to doctors over the last 15 years. I know doctors who were making $500,000 a year who are now only making $200,000 a year and it's only going to get worse with the ACA. Some people may think that $200,000 a year is a lot of money but it's really not that much if you have a family and live in an expensive area.
If doctors continue to make less and less money, it's going to be hard to convince our brightest young people to go hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt with student loans to go into a field that doesn't even pay that well.
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We sat next to a whole group of Canadians all BC w/e and I think like them we will have 'sufficient Dr.'s' however they will be from foreign countries.
A good mechanic with a shop can make 200K/year. Less about 7 years of their life in school.
Can't wait till I'm waiting for some overweight, smelly, smoking slob, subsidized by me to finish so I can see a Dr. who I can't understand.