Guys you can't be jealous of physicians...
I had to go through 13 years of school after high school, my entire 20s was spent studying my ass off, pulling all nighters, hitting the library every Friday and Saturday night while all my friends went out drinking! And now, in my mid 30 s what do I have?
I do get paid well BUT, I work 70 hours a week, have no life, be on call 24 hours a week for 2 weeks straight, have 160k in student loans.
On top of that docs get about 12 cents on every dollar charged...
You bill 100, get about 50 from insurance, then 25 of that goes to overhead, then 49.6% of that goes to the gov, leaving you 12 bucks.
Then every year you find out taxes are going up, reimbursements going down , etc!!!
So yeah, when you hear that a certain doc is making some money realize the extreme time, money energy commitment put in. And yes most of my fellow docs are compassionate. I often treat about 10 percent of my patients at no charge, do surgery for 90% off if someone has no money, on and on. Shit, I go into the hospital all the time to see a consult for free! Yes, free!
So, just because someone is making over 250 k, don't believe Obama that they are evil, they worked DAMN hard and made huge sacrifices to be in that position.