The “Rich Doctor” Myth

Considerations for the Next-Generation of Potential Providers

By Brian J. Knabe MD CMP™ CFP™

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Brian J. Knabe MDAlmost 2 decades ago, Fortune magazine carried the headline “When Six Figured Incomes Aren’t Enough. Now Doctors Want a Union.” To the man in the street, it was just a matter of the rich getting richer.

The sentiment was more precisely quantified, according to health economist and financial advisor Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA CMP, in the March 31, 2005 issue of Physician’s Money Digest, who with Editor Gregory Kelly reported that a 47-year-old doctor with $184,000 in annual income would need about $5.5 million dollars for retirement at age 65.

Of course, physicians were not complaining back then under the traditional fee-for-service system; the imbroglio only began when managed care adversely impacted income, or when the stock market crashed in 2008; or with passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [PP-ACA] in 2010 or its’ full implementation in 2014.

And now, in the post-Trump era?

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Rich Doctors

More:

  1. More on the Doctor Salary Conundrum
  2. Doctor Salary v. Others [Present Value of Career Wealth]
  3. Are Doctors Members of the Middle Class?
  4. Taxing the [not so] Rich [doctors]
  5. Doctor – Are You on Your Way to $5.5 Million?

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