My understanding is docs get paid (a lot) more to live in terrible places. So much so that an ER doc in Manhattan makes less than one in the rural south, on a gross dollar basis. That’s…interesting.
Yep, my first job out of college was hawking financial products to Medical Residents. It was probably like 15% good advice, 85% scammy high commission products.
We would steer everyone away from working in places like NYC and steer them towards Mobile, AL because the financial benefit was insane over a 5-10 year horizon.
Lots of people, at least in EM, work in one place but live completely elsewhere. Had a friend who would fly up to Alaska, work basically five straight days in a small ER where you could frequently sleep at night, and then come home for the rest of the month
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This would make a terrible sitcom premise
Would probably work better as a dramedy with a bunch of quirky characters
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It could be the premise for a reboot of Northern Exposure.
Where do you people stand on or compare the importance of eliminating student loan debt vs eliminating health care debt? A good % of actual poor people are hindered from medical debt that often wasn’t even a choice for them. Furthermore, a lot of people didn’t even get the opportunity to get fooled into getting loaned for a useless degree and a far fewer % of them are actually in need of financial help.
Not really seeing this as a major barrier but healthcare is intertangled disaster.
HoW yOu GoNnA pAy FoR iT???
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Student debt can be addressed with executive orders. Medical debt requires Congress.
Maybe. There’s a legal argument that this is outside of the president’s legal powers although getting it in front of the Supreme Court has some challenges. 2023 House could probably challenge it.
Create a special form of bankruptcy called “medical debt bankruptcy” that has no negative effects on the person declaring medical debt bankruptcy. Make it illegal for credit companies to ding your credit for declaring MDB. Expedite the MDB process, etc etc. There are ways to do it. It’ll never happen, the lobbies are too strong.
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It definitely would require a law and not just executive action.
The student loan stuff required a law too, and it exists. Not aware of any medical debt stuff that could be authorized in a similar kind of way.
Yeah, the longer I looked into it the more I began to agree with you.
The Boomers are absolutely going to spend their last years on earth complaining that our criticism of their obvious abhorrent behavior is ageism.
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Holy shit that op-ed.
As millennials, we’ve had a front-row seat to this new wave of activism that derides older leadership for lack of commitment to causes such as climate change, health care and gun safety.
It has gotten so bad that only 28 percent of 18- to 29-year-old Democrats strongly approve of Biden, down 31 points since he took office.
How out of touch those activists look now that Biden has delivered on each of those points — and more.
Can you imagine if Biden, Pelosi and Clyburn were not in their respective roles to help usher us through this inflection moment in history? The Democrats have put in place a political and policy agenda that will change the course of our country for the better.
But we’d like to highlight Pelosi’s longtime dedication to gun safety. A relentless advocate, she oversaw the first assault weapons ban in over 20 years and played a central role informing Senate negotiating strategy and keeping her House caucus in line to pass the bipartisan gun safety bill, which takes steps to prevent dangerous people from accessing firearms, invests in school safety and our mental health system, and provides a more comprehensive background check system for 18- to 21-year-olds.
It can’t go without mention that 83-year-old House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s role in deciding when legislation comes to the floor was hugely important in getting these major things done. Timing is everything in politics and Hoyer (D-Md.) is the best at reading the clock.
Taken together, it’s beyond comprehension that so many people have been slinging ageist criticism at Democratic leadership. Where would we be if they had been put out to proverbial pasture?
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fucking christ what a traitor
sounds like i gotta dive into this bad boy, but honestly in the 2nd paragraph he uses this phrase unironically and im not sure i can continue:
As Democratic strategists
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