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actually, the problem is that Congress continues to LOWER physician reimbursement, but RAISE hospital reimbursement. When I became a surgeon in 2002, medicare paid $600 for me to t…

surgeon here. before Obamacare insurance companies denied payments if they deemed the issue pre-existing and were not told about it in the patient's application. I was in private p…

The USA tax code potentiates this. First $12m tax free, step up basis allow tremendous wealth to be bequeathed without financial penalty. Trusts, when set up correctly, can do so a…

surgeon here: antibiotic treatment works great as long as there's no peritonitis and/or no appendicolith seen on CT. However, statistics show that 30% of successfully treated patie…

this. rich people make their money either investing for others or investing for themselves and are rewarded with paying less taxes on that income than people that work.

I grew up in the 80s going to the Cary Mall. It was awesome. I used to converge at the arcade where my dad would occasionally give me $.50 to play 2 games......Mostly I would watch…

The libertarian leaning policies of the USA have already started to create a low birth rate. The first affected generation doesn't have time to realize that they will be worse off …

In South Carolina, where I work for a hospital, you automatically qualify for Medicaid when you’re diagnosed with cancer. This way people don’t die from untreated cancer. Getting d…

didnt realize that link was behind paywall. It won't happen again. Gist of the story is that an amateur law student was amazingly good at predicting AAPL earnings every quarter. Gr…

Options trading is all or nothing. Yes, it's a way to multiply your profits, but it also multiplies your losses. AAPL stock, from the release of the iPhone until now, has been an a…

GF paid 18K on student loans last year, but only 2500 deductible on her taxes. I had 28k in margin interest last year, 100% deductible. US is greatly skewed to the rich

If you make less than 38600, you pay ZERO dollars in taxes on the first $75k of qualified dividend income

Senior citizens are allowed to take classes for free in North Carolina. My mother uses this to take foreign language classes. She said the older folks taking the classes take it wa…

Excellent points. Everything in this country is aligned with being wealthy. Look at how they attack 'public schools', and 'teachers unions' ruining education and want to use tax do…

Actually, without subsidies, it's around $3500 / month for a family and that's with a $5k - $10k deductible. I have a collegue that retired after inheriting a lot of money and that…

Actually, anesthesiologists are middle of the pac in regards to malpractice. Whenever someone quotes income levels for physicians, it's usually after all expenses, including malpra…

I went to Duke University from 1987 to 1991. Because I was a North Carolina Resident not using a public university, but staying in state, North Carolina paid Duke $1000 out of the …

I take care of a lot of people who work for Fortune 500 companies that have Medicaid. My taxes, therefore, subsidize these companies' profits. Moreover, when I was in private pract…

General surgeon in the South here. What I've seen is that uninsured individuals will prolong going to the doctor for symptoms because of cost and that sometimes costs them their li…

my gf just finished her nurse practitioner degree and while she increased her salary from 60k to 90k, her student loan payments, with some loans being 10% !, eat up all of her incr…

I'm old enough ( graduated HS 1987 ) to have had woodworking in middle school. Still have the shitty pine box I made in class. I now enjoy woodworking as a hobby, not a profession.…

I'm a surgeon and always ask patients what they do for a living. I once took care of a gentleman who travels the world for his company that designs and manufactures refrigeration u…

I've re-excised melanoma's in young people and excised moles that I didn't think looked like melanomas that came back as being them. Metastatic melanoma kills. The recovery room of…