I think it was a week ago Glenn Beck had an entire TV show with half practicing docs and half med school students. It was really quite telling to see the support for ObamaCare the students had, and the opposition to it the experienced docs had. Someone put it up on YT

http://tinyurl.com/yjnylqt

Funny, but all that support for such a system would go quickly when those young up-starts would be told where/when/who to practice … and who NOT to practice on. And then comes the fact they grew up in the richest society in the world where people start out on the bottom rung with the great expectations of climbing up to the freedom their career offers. They have no clue what it would mean to be told they couldn’t do it the way they wanted to do it.

I do hope that it will never pass. For the sake of people like your daughter, my friend, and their future patients.

So far she has been invited to 6 medical schools for interviews in the last month and a half. (The acceptance letters have begun to arrive, and chances are she will have HER pick of a medical school before she’s done … not to mention the US military is after her too).

I should be so excited and happy for all her hard work and accomplishments, which include rare undergrad work (paid) in the university’s biochem lab for most of her college time, tutoring for the university in math and chemistry depts. (paid), and currently writing a paper to be published on her research in the biochem lab … including continued awards in chemistry.

She’s what the whole family and my friends call “scary smart”.

I should be excited for her.

Instead I’m anxious and fearful.

I only pray she is more optimistic. BTW, the ObamaCare issue is continually brought up at the medical school interviews. She is honest and firm in her opposition to government run healthcare, and backs up her views with facts.

As to the military recruiting, she had considered it (Navy) before the election, but informed the recruiter that if Obama had won she would not sign up to serve under him as CiC.

However, now that she will have to take out loans for medical school, and it appears the loans will be controlled by the government with mandated ‘serve’ time attached, she now says she would go into the Navy and owe the military her years of payback for funding her medical schooling and obey THEIR orders of where to practice instead of owing/obeying “The One”.