The new healthcare plan, like most socialist ideas, ignores a HUGE aspect of our existing healthcare sytem; incentives. What will motivate people to become doctors, or massive investment in research and development? The healthcare industry’s focus will now shift from innovation of new cures and treatments to figuring out how to extract more taxpayers’ dollars from the bureaucracy. That’s just a matter of corrupting more elected officials, which will prove to be alot simpler than finding a cure for cancer.
No problem; since preference will be given to inner city yoots, under the obama monstrosity, there’ll be plenty of rapper wannabees who will now be enrolling in med school.
We do have a doctor shortage. This will aggravate it. But the main reason we have a doctor shortage is because of how medical schools operate. There are too few slots to meet the country’s needs and many people who are intelligent enough and who would make great doctors don’t get to because of the med school admission process.
It takes grades and test scores that get you into Ivy League quality schools in any other professional discipline to even be in competition for admission to the least prestigious of medical schools. That’s a national crisis.