“Doctors are overpaid”

Apr 04 2011

 That’s not an exact quote, but that’s what Jeff Sachs on Morning Joe just said, twice, almost to a syllable.  

Brilliant.

Let’s disincentivize  our best & brightest from 10 years of training at a cost of over a half a million dollars so they can be the best in the world at what they do so they can look forward to a career that pays $250k per year, which, after taxes, is $175k out of which they have to pay $100,000 per year in malpractice insurance.

But I suppose for 10 years & $500k, $75k per year is overpaid…

Yeah.  They’re overpaid.  Let’s just randomly pull people off the street and put them in medical school an see how that goes.  Maybe Richard Trumka!  He’d be great.

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