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by giantg2 1515 days ago
We've created so much regulation that no one person can know it all - not the legislators, not the agents/bureaucrats, not the judges, and certainly not the workers or patients who would be most affected by them.
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I was just on a 40-person call with Micky Tripathi today. I was on a gov-only call with his minions yesterday. They mean well, but they're policy people, they don't promote by repealing policy (remember, the boss promoting them wrote that policy). No programmer will stoop to a government salary to clean up the mess. Something has to give, and we've decided to break the doctors and nurses until the patients die. Things might change once a few major city trauma systems implode.

Keep in mind, the boomers are retiring and there aren't enough Gen X to replace them. Here's the graph of job postings for my specialty (takes a bit of finagling for it to render, esp. mobile, but suffice to say the system is going bonkers): https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/jobs?jbl=1