Over half of Mississippi's rural hospitals risk closing

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Averages are tricky.

Especially when it is used in isolation.

Startup costs for a practice can be like a whole mortgage. Ditto a quarter million in education debt once they graduate. Tack on 25-50K in annual malpractice insurance for a lot of doctors.

But too many people just see the average income, and default to class warfare.

No class warfare on my part (although it is understandable you might think that of me.) I am merely trying to point out how obvious it is that blaming “the corporate insurance industry” is way way way off base.

So is blaming doctor salaries, they account for around ten percent of medical costs, cut them in half and you save five percent, which inflation will erase in one year. Or less, definitely less given medical inflation rates.