{"id":183990,"date":"2012-09-14T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/14\/doctors-someone-else-who-did-it-all-by-themselves\/"},"modified":"2012-09-14T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T00:35:00","slug":"doctors-someone-else-who-did-it-all-by-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/14\/doctors-someone-else-who-did-it-all-by-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors:  Someone Else Who Did it All By Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Except for the inconvenient fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/gloverman.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/09\/training-new-doctors.html\">the federal government covers about 90% of the cost of medical residencies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">So let me get this straight.  Currently, the Federal government fund about 90% of the cost of training new doctors at a cost of $12 billion per year?  The health care industry itself only picks up 10% of the cost?  <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">I would love to know how this state of affairs got to where it is.  I can&#8217;t think of another major profession &#8211; other than those that are exclusively government professions (military, police, firemen, etc.) where the government pays such a huge amount of training costs for its key personnel.  It&#8217;s actually kind of mind-boggling.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet another case of Randian \u00dcbermenschen who simply picked themselves up by their own bootstraps, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t Atrios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Except for the inconvenient fact that the federal government covers about 90% of the cost of medical residencies: So let me get this straight. Currently, the Federal government fund about 90% of the cost of training new doctors at a cost of $12 billion per year? The health care industry itself only picks up 10% &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,968,1009,1150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-education","category-government","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}