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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Koligman who wrote (9944)	9/30/2009 11:46:13 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

If college educated Americans aren't making any income gains, and healthcare keeps soaring, I don't have any problems with doctors joining the party. Do you? If college educated Americans are not happy with their incomes in relation to those of doctors, they should become doctors. That's the way this works. If a person decides to become a teacher, that is their choice. Nobody is confused about it. Teachers don't make as much money as physicians; neither do pharmacists or accountants. If they wanted to work harder and become a physician they ought to have done that. I don't understand this mindset that we need to tear physicians down because most of us make less money. Most of us deserve less because we haven't made the choices to give up our 20s to become physicians and to work our asses off through vastly more difficult educations and incurred massive debts to get through the educational process. Get over it. If you wanted to be a physician you could have. My own physician was a construction worker until he decided to become a doctor. When he started to school he had zilch. He did the hard work. How about we let reap the rewards of his hard work?

To: John Koligman who wrote (9944)	9/30/2009 11:59:12 PM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

How would you like if you, a trader, would be allowed to make only "X" number of dollars per trade? Maybe lawyers should get disbarred for charging anything above the rates which are to be established by Congress? And what about pizza - with "college educated Americans" not getting raises, I think we need to pass a law that a slice of pizza should never be over a buck. Auto mechanics have no business charging more than $40 per hour. Let's all of us try living under a price control regime... let's see how it will work out. Oh yeah, not to forget ballplayers and actors and all those hacks who write novels. The Congress should seriously discuss how much they ought to get paid. Can't allow them to keep overcharging the public.