[Sgt_Schultze]

It's all part of the plan. Eventually there will be a shortage of high caliber doctor students in medical school. Fewer of them will be able to afford top tier schools like Harvard, Hopkins and Stanford. I bet the plan is for Government Health to adopt a military service academy model whereby the graduates will receive free medical education in exchange for deployment for a period of about 10 years, into areas that need medical personnel.

The bad thing there is that would lead to less competent physicians generally through mandatory access to marginal students due to some specific personal characteristic.

[43north]

“Eventually there will be a shortage of high caliber doctor students in medical school.”

This has already happened thanks to affirmative action.

[bruinbirdman]

"The bad thing there is that would lead to less competent physicians "

The Obammunist is way ahead of this problem.

His HHS Department is recruiting volunteers who are promised jobs in the medical field when his Socialized Medicine kicks in.

Also, nurses and technicians will be certified for most procedures now reserved for doctors.

yitbos

[Secret Agent Man]

There is already a huge shortage of GPs.

[cherry]

I think all of our American universities graduate good doctors....I reject that Harvard for some reason has the smartest doctors...Harvard exists so the ultra rich and priviledged can mingle amongst themselves...why else would Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore be roomates at Harvard?...both nitwits....

there already exists a program that will pay for medical school in exchange for working on Indian reservations, or inner city, etc....

[EDINVA]

There is already a military medical school, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. I don’t know what the commitment of students is to serving after graduation, probably 5 years like the USNA, USMA, USAFA.

Yesterday I was trying to find an M.D. at Georgetown Hospital in DC. Couldn’t remember the name, so went thru the entire directory. About 1/15 names sounded like names that would have been at G’town 20-25 years ago. It seems American college grads are less inclined to continue on to medical school, whether because they’re not admitted or because they see the handwriting on the wall that it’s not being a great future relative to the cost of time and money to earn the M.D.