I love this quote I saw today. "No one has ever died on a raft trying to leave a capitalist country to get to a socialist country."
Scott Becker
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Scott Becker
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Founder @ Becker’s Healthcare, Partner @ McGuireWoods. Daily thoughts on health care and business. Author: Building Great Businesses
- 11 stories we are following today 1. Futures rise as the President announces a trade deal with Japan. Here the headline reads. "Trump strikes trade agreement with Japan, calls it 'largest deal in history'". Yahoo Finance. lnkd.in/gjTMB63n 2. Kohl's, one of the
- Doctors go to school and residency and often fellowships til 30 plus. We are short doctors. Pay them what they deserve. We need em badly and they deserve it.You’re unable to view this Post because this account owner limits who can view their Posts. Learn more
- 12 stories we are following this am. 1. The markets point up again this am. The only caveat I would add is that a good deal of growth and market records can be attributed to deficit spending which helps grow and inflate the economy. Here, at some point the deficit will
- When anyone complains about the income that doctors make, I think they are completely ignorant. We are short drs, drs go to school for longer than anyone else to be able to take care of us and we need tens of thousands more doctors. Like Jack Nicholson says in the movie,
- We need more drs. PE isn't the problem. Hospitals are not the problem. We need more drs. That's the problem. And we need to make it attractive for the best and brightest to go into medicine too.
- 13 stories we are following today 1. The markets keep rising despite the government shutdown. The markets point up this morning. "Dow, S&P 500 close at record highs to cap Wall Street's latest winning week". Yahoo Finance. The S&P 500 is up 14.18% YTD. The Nasdaq is up 18%
- When someone looks at college debt and complains about college debt they are fully missing the point. The cost of college debt is due to the incredible cost of college. Someone has to stop spending so much money on buildings and pensions and more and figure out how to deliver
- The latest sign that primary care by doctors is over in our nation. I have an appointment next week with the Dr I love. Outstanding doctor. When I went to reschedule the next available appointment is in April 2026. It's all ok but it's a very clear sign that we are moving
- This concept that doctors are the problem and that if doctors would just focus on wellness, we would all be better off is so ludicrous I can't even respond. Are doctors causing us to drink not exercise and eat cookies. Of course not. This is all a narrative to distract from
- Counting government spending as a part of GDP is fake counting and inflates GDP. It's part of why China's GDP has been so inflated. Deficit spending and government spending make a mockery of trying to judge real growth. Listen tomorrow at Becker Private Equity and Business
- Here is an unpopular opinion. Both parties are equally awful on health care. The concept of saying we want "coverage for all" but not fixing the access and supply issue is the same as writing a check you cannot cash. Most of us want coverage for all but if we aren't
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- We are producing 6 to 7 times more nurses a year in our nation than doctors. Within 10 years my guess is 90 percent of primary care will be done by nurses. I wonder if at that point all the remaining PCPs will be concierge or highly leveraged to help oversee a new means of
