Ever hear of the movement not to trust healthcare advise from those who study health, and medicine, on the grounds that they are tied to making money? Its as absurd as telling people not to trust the person who changes your oil to know about how to change oil, because you are paying them for it. This movement is tied to a movement I call "There is such thing as a free lunch" a group of people looking for government handouts. This will anger those in the movement, because most of the followers are actually against government handouts, but not because of the handouts themselves, but because of the government. There is no such thing as a free lunch, if you want more studies in medicine you are going to need to compensate the person running the study in some way, or they aren't going to be able to make a living while doing a great service for all people. A person cannot live on service alone.
Lets look at what people do in these situations.
1. They can't trust their doctor because their doctor gets paid.
Why is the pay so high? because in order to get good quality doctors, they must go through a rigorous amount of schooling that costs the aspiring doctor to pay thousands of dollars in order to get a degree. Why require a degree? because health is important. You need some way to know that the person you are trusting with your Life knows what they are talking about. What if you only want to trust yourself? Go ahead, but understand that unless you take the same degree of classes most doctors do, you really won't know much about healthcare. You can think you do all you want, but now your just getting a little prideful, where did you learn your information? If you didn't learn it from a certified college, and don't trust the work of certified doctors, then you most likely obtained your information from an article posted by someone else who thinks they know more than everybody else. But where did that person get their knowledge? if they got if from an actual doctor, then they can't be trusted. Unless they put up a legitimate study themselves, that doesn't rely on correlating evidence alone, then they are Full of crap. So yes, its important to have a degree (AKA KNOWLEDGE). Now lets put some numbers together and see what you would be willing to work for, after paying for your degree, most doctors graduate with a debt of 150,000 and according to Forbes magasine "Monthly payment on a debt of $150,000 at the end of residency at an interest rate of 2.8% is $1,761, according to the study" (I'm not going to cite this study. it exists, but I'm not going to cite the actual study, because most articles written by those against doctors make quotes that lead to nowhere, I will assure you though, this leads to somewhere). Keep in mind that this is just the debt, most students have already forked out thousands more dollars on top of their debut during their 10 years at college. So 1,761 per month. means 21,132 per year. This equals out to 86 months of payments. or 7.1 years. (found by my trusty financial calculator, I am a senior getting my degree in accounting, minor in banking and financial services. Therefore... since I have had the propper training, I can actually be trusted on finding how many years it will take to pay off 150,000 at 2.8% making monthly payments of 1,761). ok 1,761 for 7.1 years, or 86 months. the average doctor makes around 240,000 per year. but we want to look at starting salary, because this is what you will have to live off of your first years out of school. This is found to be 120,000 dollars. Now lets subtract out the loan payments. 120,000-21,132=98,868. Now they will need to pay for malpractice insurance, because people will sue you like crazy because they think everything bad that happens to them healthwise was the doctors fault. And you will need to pay court fees whether its true or not. Its more likely to be true in your first years than not. so lets take that out of the equation. average yearly payments for malpractice insurance (which is required) is 8,000. 98,868-8000= 90,868. A doctor at 120,000 per year salary are in the 30% tax bracket. which is 36,000 in taxes. 90,868-36,000= 54,868. already you are wondering if this is the field of study you want to be in. is 54,868 after tax income really worth going to school for 10 years? Want to know A better alternative? don't get a job as a doctor, instead get a following of people, and make them believe that doctors are overpaid, and make their decisions based on the money. This will take the attention off of you as you ask for donations, or you can sell a medical product that hasn't been tested enough to know anything about the side effects... Call it "all natural" because this is one of the greatest marketing techniques of our time. "all natural" products are easy to make, because they require no testing or regulation. if they had testing and regulation they probably wouldn't be "all natural" so "all natural health products will be your cheapest option. You can charge for much more than what it takes you to produce, and if your popular enough, you can raise your prices! People will have no clue how much you are making off of your all natural herbal remedies, because their focus will be on pharmasudical companies who are required to fork out millions in testing their products and finding all the side effects. They are regulated beyond belief.
So if you take the government out if it, and run with the unregulated "herbal" remedies. You can tell your customers what the herb does simply by citing an article written by a nobody, who quoted another nobody. Mix in the placebo effect with a fueled hatred towards pharmaceutical medication, and your product is bound to get amazing reviews. There are no side effects to give people any ideas on what could be causing their headache, so breathe a huge sigh of relief because there is no way they will think it is from the product you just sold them. Make sure that you make some public appearances on taking a stance against mainstream healthcare, or else your client base will drop. Remember, your in this new venture for the money, because it was easier than becoming a knowledgeable doctor. Don't screw this up by allowing people to start to question your motives, they might find out the truth.
