Fair enough. My point about them getting squeezed is 2-pronged, both to illustrate that not only are doctor salaries not necessarily as lucrative as some may assume in comparison to other professions, but that they are trending in a negative direction. This may not dissuade people from becoming doctors now, but if things get worse, it might. As far as I know big law goes up steadily like 5k every year right? There is no clear, looming reduction on your future earnings. Regardless, all doctors that I know feel government intervention will drastically exacerbate the trend in the negative direction.
So not only is it not as great currently as you people assume, it has the potential to get even worse with govt healthcare. I don't think our brightest citizens should be the ones that suffer to solve this situation. You may say the old adadge"do what you love" but that is a bit insulting. So if doctors love medicine they should just accept whatever low price compared to peers?
And yes, you can earn substantially more in you live in the sticks, but that too will be relatively reduced with universal healthcare.
Further, universal healthcare will not affect dentists like doctors. As far as i know, they normally just charge people out of pocket for service, right? So when premed students see their peers struggling in class and then making twice as much when they become dentists, after a while you "love" for a profession becomes less compelling, don't you think?
