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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
I'm glad you had the good sense to plan so well, and yet you are still feeling the strain. I'm sorry about that. But unlike you, most people are not physicians, especially not highly regarded ones.
According to the 2017 census, the median family income in the US was $59,000. And that was the median. You know that so many many more earned less than that. Many less than minimum wage. There is a big fight to not even raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour, and most of those folks have no insurance. I'm pretty sure most physicians make well over $200 K per year with many surgeons heading towards $500 K, all of whom likely are given healthcare benefits, when they are working.
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Yeah, I had good insurance then.
You know, at the end of the month, I am pretty sure the added $600 a week in federal unemployment COVID benefits runs out and the Repubicans will not renew it. 30 million people will lose income. Representative McCarthy, who has the IQ of a snow pea and the empathy of a terrorist, said it would, and I quote: "...not be producctive..." to extend them further. Right. It is not productive for out of work families who cannot afford their mortgages to now not even be able to eat. Not productive.