Hilarious

Did our government really spend 100's of hours on behind the scenes government funded research to come up with this?

Let me run some numbers for you:

$140,000 loan at a conservative 5% interest rate will set you back $750 a month, every month for 30 years.

That's $9000 a year for 30 years.

And that's AFTER TAX money. The equivalent of $14,000 pre tax of income per year, every yearfor 30 years, just to pay your student loans.

That's $420,000 of lifetime income required to pay off student loans for the average tax paying doctor with the average student loan debt.

The government says they are willing to forgive $2000 a year for up to 5 years for serving in an area of need.

If a physician makes $150,000 working 40 hours a week, that's the equivalent of about $75/hour.

How much is $2,000 a year?

That equates to 27 hours of work, or about 3 days of work a year.

To put it another way, $10,000 out of $420,000 is a whopping 2.4% of your lifetime student loan debt.

The government wants you to go work in underserved areas and then deal with all the incredible headaches that come with the Medicaid rules and regulations, the slave labor wages, the social and economic issues, the quality issues, the legal issues.

The government is going to entice you to go work there. And in return, for working there for 5 years, they will pay you the equivalent of 2 weeks pay.

Or 2.4% of your student loan debt.

Hilarious.

And that's why government shouldn't be running health care.

Because the same morons who spent hundreds of hours of legal crap coming up with this stuff are the same people who are destroying the free market principles of physician business owners everywhere.