$250,000-Debt: Enough?

How much debt is too much?

Flip Burgers?

Starting at age 18, work 40 hours/week for Burger King, investing $10,000/year for 47 years, earning 5% real on investments. Save $1,781,194.21 at age 65.

Run The Treadmill?

At age 33, after working 80 hours/week for the last 7 years and with a debt of $250,000 at age 33, continue working 80 hours/week for 32 more years, earning the same interest at 5%. You must save $39,475.11/year to catch the Burger King. This means you must make approximately twice that much to save that amount, since collections run approximately half of billings, given the "discounts" built into our "system." Our system is a shell-game controlled by a corporate Congress. If we forced it to enjoy the same medical plans as the rest of the nation enjoys, incentive for doctors would be a matter of law...

What happened in Georgia? Click here.

The Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 permits any hospital board to ignore due process as stated in the Constitution; the United States Supreme Court has twice refused to rule in this matter (SHALLER, POLINER). Without due process, medical practice is unsafe for patient and doctor. Doctors can lose their career-investment before paying back their career-loans: The risk of choosing MD over JD or MBA is too great. The doctor-shortage is predicted to reach 200,000 by 2020.

Click here to read about HCQIA of 1986.

"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy." Louis Brandeis, United States Supreme Court

"The failure to change and improve the current system will continue to result in the loss of qualified and skilled physicians from their profession due to others who maliciously pervert the current peer review process for their own selfish motives." Hall