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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]thank the greedy doctors and big pharma.[/quote]

Actually Hopkins doctors don’t get paid much at all.[/quote]

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I used to be one.
I had 10+ years of experience in a speciality with moderate salaries (ie not peds or rheumatology or another low-paying speciality), and made 180K/year working 60-70 hours/week.
Many have family money or a higher-earning spouse.
Couldn’t swing it anymore financially, and left.

Also, because of the structure of medical reimbursement for Maryland Hospitals, costs are more contained in Maryland than in other states.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/opinion/maryland-medical-bills-lower.html

Doctors in Maryland actually have fairly low salaries relative to the cost of living.

But the whole system is broken and needs to be burned down and rebuilt.
Essentially every physician I know who is 50 or younger wants single-payrr.
We are all burned out and miserable. 
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There’s a huge divide between old and young doctors when it comes to single-payer and private practice versus employed positions.

Then in the middle there's a bunch of doctors that had to drop a boatload of money to buy into a practice. And while they might prefer single-payer, they're going to be (understandably) nervous about getting screwed on the return from their buy-in.[/quote]

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