The RINOs are Right, well Correct.

[ABNAK]

Milton Friedman had some excellent presentations about how it isn't the lower 50+% that is the problem as much as it is a selection of the elites that, in the name of the poor, rob the middle and upper classes. Think welfare infrastructure and all the govt jobs involved and Reagan's 64 speech where he pointed out that we spend enough on welfare to take everyone out of poverty- but somehow it never gets there. Friedman also talks about how much money goes to middle class people, but that they never think that they are getting their fair share back- I think of it as going out drinking on a joint tab and there is never enough money to cover the tab- everyone thinks that they are giving more and getting less than they actually are. (I would like to point out that even right after college, even though my close friends and I didn't make real money, we always had extra in the pot to cover the bill so that we would let it roll and it eventually paid for our breakfast.)

Oh I'm sure there is a strong element of human nature and petty jealousies involved. However, last time I saw a stat on it around 47% of families in the U.S. have no federal income tax burden thanks to the EITC. Now that's damn near half of the country on that one program alone! Factor in Obamacare subsidies, SSI, ADFC (foodstamps), Section 8, etc. and you break the crucial "50% +1" threshold. Yeah, some of those programs have overlap of people in them but it is clear that over time the Leftists have achieved their goal of creating just enough folks suckling off the teat to win elections. Obviously can't have too many doing so as there'd be no one to friggin' pay for it!

Everyone touts the off-year Congressional elections as such HUGE victories, like the one last year. Sure it is nice to have some gridlock to Shitstain's agenda but watch the POTUS election cycles; that is where the "50% + 1" show up, as they know the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is where the buck stops in the majority of cases.

[Caeser25]

Nurse practitioners or Physician assistants are the other path. They are going to knock the living crap out or MDs like pediatricians and family practice. Sweet money and not that much upfront education compared to MDs.

Completely agree with this. The options are limitless.

[J8127]

All 9 ruled that the 2A is an individual right, they just disagreed over whether or not DC could do anything about it, 1 was even of the opinion that states can not infringe, but just that D.C. isn't actually a state.

Calm down.

[jpmuscle]

Completely agree with this. The options are limitless.

My cousin is a PA and gets the majority of her student loans reimbursed since she's working in a impoverished city. She grossed 87k last year. With a Masters degree....

[Hmac]

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Nurse practitioners or Physician assistants are the other path. They are going to knock the living crap out or MDs like pediatricians and family practice.

It's true that if your professional aspirations are farther down the scale and you can live with the limitations, Advanced Practice Clinician is a career worth pursuing. Generally, little or no call responsibility, low expenses, often 9-5 work schedule. The demand is way up, not due to cost efficiency but due to the critical lack of primary care physicians, especially relative to the vastly increasing demand. They're hiring NP/PAs largely because there aren't any doctors.

[Phillygunguy]

As a PA I can tell you after10 years I feel I made the right decision. My student loans were 80 thousand, with a graduate degree, much less than what a doctor had to pay. Plus malpractice insurance is paid for through the hospital I work, and if I pay out of pocket it's still 10s of thousands of dollars cheaper than what a physician pays especially if your an Ob gyn or CT surgery.
Now I'm not making $150,000 $200,000 or more a year, But I do make a decent amount enough live comfortably. No call, work 13 shifts a month including some nights and I get time to have a life.


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[Hmac]

Plus malpractice insurance is paid for through the hospital I work, and if I pay out of pocket it's still 10s of thousands of dollars cheaper than what a physician pays especially if your an Ob gyn or CT surgery.

The majority of physicians these days work for health care systems and expenses like malpractice are paid by the system. There is little private practice these days. In my case, my surgical partners and I have a PSA and contract with the hospital where we work, so we do pay our own malpractice. My 3 MIS partners and I are category 5 because we do vascular surgery -- I pay a little over $12,000 per year in premiums. My OB/GYN partners pay the same, my orthopedic partners pay about $14,000 per year.

[Phillygunguy]

The majority of physicians these days work for health care systems and expenses like malpractice are paid by the system. There is little private practice these days. In my case, my surgical partners and I have a PSA and contract with the hospital where we work, so we do pay our own malpractice. My 3 MIS partners and I are category 5 because we do vascular surgery -- I pay a little over $12,000 per year in premiums. My OB/GYN partners pay the same, my orthopedic partners pay about $14,000 per year.

That's not to bad, I doctor I had a rotation with while in school was a PCP and sold his practice because malpractice insurance was too much
But that was in 2004.

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[Hmac]

That's not to bad, I doctor I had a rotation with while in school was a PCP and sold his practice because malpractice insurance was too much
But that was in 2004.

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Malpractice rates have always been low in this state The premiums reflect that.

I am on call 1 in 4, but get paid $1000/day to do that. I get plenty of time to have a life too, but then...surgery is a huge part of that life. I get paid for doing what I love. For those who are just looking for a job, there are indeed well-paying jobs in Medicine and being an APC such as NP, PA, or CRNA is by far the most bang-for-buck.