Reply #16: A Doctors MD training can put them in Debt at graduation by $180,000 - perhaps forgiveness of those [View All]

debts is the first reform, followed by retroactive tuition and board reimbursement.

Then those MD will be able to lower their charges without going bankrupt.

Of course the 4 to 8 years after the 4 years of post graduate time spent in Medical School which are called intern and residency which currently pay in the high 30's and low 40's depending on which year of residency you are in, will all need to be retroactively reimbursed since current MD wages are a recapture of those years of being paid less than half of what you are worth in any other role.

As to "Yet doctors are not leading the charge to fix this mess." - that is false statement - they are leading the charge to fix this mess. This web site http://www.pnhp.org/ is, as the name says, Doctors trying to get the system changed to single payer universal health. The org and the website have been around for a decade - the doctors are leading. The AMA has a lot of doctors who are still in the repaying of school loans and recapture of lost wages phase and feel then can not afford to change the system, but there are a lot of doctors who while in the same situation are amazingly self sacrificing and wanting to help mankind even if it bankrupts them.

Your rant against doctors re our medical care payment system is misinformed.