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<p>Obamagirl. Life of Julia has disappeared from the web. Now Glitch Girl is gone. </p>
<p>There are binders full of the disappeared!</p>
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<p>Getting a job isn’t enough, because many employers do not provide health insurance to their employees. 63% of all uninsured individuals live in households with 1 or more full-time workers.</p>
<p>^ Lots of people with jobs find buying insurance a stretch if they don’t offer insurance as a benefit.</p>
<p>Texaspg, it seems very important to you that Texas provides subsidies while the feds dont. There are still taxpayer subsidies involved.</p>
<p>Baylor Medical 179 MILLION DOLLARS from NIH
Do you think Baylor Med would be just as good without the money?</p>
<p>Do any of the professors receive some of that NIH money? Doesnt some of that money increase knowledge? And then that knowledge is transferred?</p>
<p>Wouldn’t professors leave Baylor if the funding dries up? </p>
<p>Doesnt that NIH money help the community surrounding Baylor?</p>
<p>I am guessing. You tell me. The professors only teach and see patients? </p>
<p>Look at all these places that receive NIH funding. Should we get rid of NIH?</p>
<p><a href=“http://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm[/url]”>http://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm</a></p>
<p>Poetgrl…yeah what happened?</p>
<p>^ Corporate greed.</p>
<p>"Texaspg, it seems very important to you that Texas provides subsidies while the feds dont. There are still taxpayer subsidies involved. "</p>
<p>I am not sure what you are getting at. Most colleges are funded by States. So medical schools are no different from undergraduate colleges and/or graduate colleges within the State. So why would you consider medical education to be any different than any others? Why wouldn’t engineers who went to state school not be considered obligated to do what you think doctors need to do because the state tax payers funded them?</p>
<p>NIH funding is not unique to medical schools. NIH funds even undergrad schools. They are funding research, not education at the school. Colleges steal professors by giving them more funding based on their potential. Rice lured a bunch of professors from UCSD when California cut their research funding.</p>
<p>In the end, most medical schools still generate competent doctors with or without research money. They just don’t have the wow factor that comes with research ranking money.</p>
<p>Edit: I see where our disagreement stems from. I am claiming there is very little money coming from Federal government outside of research and resident training monies. I do not suggest I am against it.</p>
<p>In a state of 3.9 million people, the Great State of Oregon has enrolled how many in Obamacare you ask? That’s right - Zero. Yes, the goose egg. Nada. Zip. Noone. See what happens when a state legalized pot. </p>
<p>[Guess</a> How Many People Oregon Has Enrolled in Obamacare Through Its Exchange Website ? No, Less Than That | Video | TheBlaze.com](<a href=“http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/25/guess-how-many-people-oregon-has-enrolled-in-obamacare-through-its-exchange-website-no-less-than-that/]Guess”>http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/25/guess-how-many-people-oregon-has-enrolled-in-obamacare-through-its-exchange-website-no-less-than-that/)</p>
<p>Speaking of NIH, a local medical researcher who does grant proposal reviews for NIH told me the shutdown had a major impact on all grant approvals.</p>
<p>He said many who were in the approval phase in October went down the drain and need to be reapplied for in March.</p>
<p>Research and education are tied together. </p>
<p>I am talking about medical students because this is the ACA thread. It is true. Some posters would rather talk about websites. :)</p>
<p>Baylor would lose a lot of people if NIH funding was eliminated. You are telling me that the med students would not be affected?</p>
<p>What did I say doctors are obligated to do?</p>
<p>I am going to take a more direct tact. Med students are subsidized. As a parent, if my kid went to med school, I think that is a benefit to me. I think those that are receiving subsidies… In this case as much as $200,000, should not complain when others who also need subsidies receive subsidies. </p>
<p>It is a little disingenuos, isn’t it?</p>
<p>If you arent complaining… Great. </p>
<p>I support the NIH and I suppose some of the money is wasted.</p>
<p>Dstark, whatever monies the federal government pays to support medical education, we should also look at the total cost for the student for a medical education.</p>
<p>Do we really need a medical education in the US to take so long? Do we really need four years of undergrad, plus four years of med school, plus whatever post-grad specialist training the doctor gets? Wouldn’t it cost less if it was shorter?</p>
<p>I think when you say med students are subsidized, it’s kind of like saying Student Loans are financial aid.</p>
<p>I think med SCHOOLS are subsidized. The students? Not so much.</p>
<p>Razorsharp, isn’t that because there has been big problems with their website? That is what I read in the NYTimes. </p>
<p><a href=“Health Exchange Enrollment Ended With a Surge - The New York Times”>Health Exchange Enrollment Ended With a Surge - The New York Times;
<p>I also don’t understand why people are so concerned with the number of people who have signed up so far. One doesn’t need to sign up until the middle of December to get coverage starting the first of the year. It’s not as if you don’t sign up asap there won’t be insurance left to purchase. </p>
<p>I think the more important number is the accounts created number.</p>
<p>"In this case as much as $200,000, should not complain when others who also need subsidies receive subsidies. "</p>
<p>They are in Texas (16k /yr tuition), but not so much in California (34k), Pennsylvania (40+k) and few other States where the states don’t subsidize at the same level as Texas. Texas creates more doctors per capita than most states.</p>
<p>I thought I read that a school or two is thinking of cutting a year. </p>
<p>One thing I dont want to do is start telling medical schools how to run things. That is not my area of expertise. My field was kind of more in the financial, economic, risk areas. </p>
<p>I try not to talk about things I dont know about. I am not perfect. 
Running a medical school is a little beyond my pay grade. </p>
<p>But professors leave if funding becomes a problem. That I know. :)</p>
<p>The accounts created number is meaningless.</p>
<p>I created an account to be able to see if there was a different price on the exchange or for private. You can’t get a price without an account.</p>
<p>All that tells you is how many people have shopped for a price.</p>
<p>I like what Texas is doing with their medical schools. I said that before. :)</p>
<p>Accounts created is nearly meaningless. Thats people just looking. Every reporter and blogger writing about it has created an account. </p>
<p>Considering 500,000 people have been kicked off their plans, having 474,000 accounts is not that impressive. </p>
<p>The Whitehouse was has a stated goal of covering the uninsured. Not moving the already insured onto a Bronze plan.</p>
<p>33% of all people in Texas are uninsured. Maybe they should be spending the money insuring these people instead of giving it to medical schools to train doctors 33% of their fellow Texans will never be able to take advantage of.</p>
<p>You know, this whole will enough sign-up thing baffles me a little. It’s the law. We already know it’s unpopular but it’s not exactly voluntary. Explain? </p>
<p>And I do think they are planning some follow-up of the info-gathering that’s going on here. Why wouldn’t there be?</p>