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Doesn't surprise me about dentistry leaning harder right. I would say it's more likely to be split by specialty and where they work as far as private practice or public.
Dentists tend to be a little more business minded since most of their work is done at privately owned businesses. The same would probably go for anyone working for a private practice owned by a group of surgeons or something like that.
In my experience people working in public or university hospitals who get a lot of their funding through Medicare or Medicaid understand the need to expand healthcare in the US. I could probably make more money working for a private clinic where I would be eligible for performance bonuses and stuff, but I enjoy providing care to everyone in my community and think it's a basic humane right.
To be fair though, most businesses benefit from left leaning policy vs. MAGA policy...
Ehh, it kind of depends on your tax bracket. Some businesses might vicariously do slightly better because Democrats tend to have healthier economies. However, that is a small bump compared to the massive tax cuts these business owners and high income earners get from Republicans.
Most local businesses aren't getting massive cuts. They're nowhere near the income needed to get benefits. They actually have a harder time competing against monopolistic companies because of Republicans
Not really a problem with the types of businesses we were discussing. All the struggling physicians owned clinics are already gone, what's left are generally very successful specially clinics. Dentists are also doing very well for themselves as it's a hard sector for any single company to monopolize. Since most of the cost is being covered by the patients themselves they have more control where they end up getting care.
Physicians and dentists are most definitely in the tax brackets that are getting the most out of the cuts. Small businesses in general got a 20% cut, and then they also got income tax reductions on top of that.