[resource_waste]

>So we are lobbying for an increase in Medicare funding for residency positions (they are paid by Medicare).

Hey taxpayers, can you pay for my grad degree too? Wait its worse, I actually profit during this period.

Don't worry that I'm the highest paid profession upon graduation.

[Pigalowda]

You think you’ll be able to recruit more people into medicine by reducing compensation, keeping education costs the same, and also keeping medicolegal liability on the physician?

Residency as “profit” is a stretch. You tread water for 5 years. If you would like those apprenticeship years to go unpaid then I’m not sure how it increases the number of people who want to go into medicine.

[resource_waste]

>You think you’ll be able to recruit more people into medicine by reducing compensation

You don't need to recruit more, there is an abundant supply of people who want it.

>Residency as “profit” is a stretch.

Physicians are funny, a fantastic wage for the lower-middle class is considered 'treading water'. And its for education. Something every other degree pays for.

>I’m not sure how it increases the number of people who want to go into medicine.

This is not an issue, there are plenty of people who want degrees that don't involve math. The issue is number of licenses, not number of people who are capable of doing the job and want to.

[twotwotwo2]

Residents should absolutely be paid. Years of often times reaching 80 hours/week, treating patients, performing procedures, writing notes - all is valuable labor.

It is like saying we won't pay you for the first several years of your first dev job because it is primarily a ramp up / educational period.

[resource_waste]

What is true:

The labor isnt valuable thus cannot be billed and needs to be taken via taxes. It also means that whatever people are doing in residency, they don't need residency for. Licensure bullshit.

The labor is valuable and doesnt need to be taken via taxes.