Single payer will destroy the medical profession.
The medical profession is the US has already been drug into the gutter with very few practitioners actually rendering a professional service to anybody anymore. Their veracity is heavily in doubt.
Single payer will drive those seeking medical consultation to Mexico.
Single payer will destroy the medical profession.
Doubtful. New hospitals are popping up like weeds in my area of Florida. The quality of medicine will deteriorate but the medical corps will make trillions of single payer.
“Single payer will destroy the medical profession.”
Yes it will.
Right now, only the best, brightest, and most dedicated high school graduates have a track for becoming medical doctors.
They must commit to continuing their education for a time which is equal in length to what they have just completed. That is, they are only half way there. It will be 12 more years.
During a large portion of these next 12 years, they will be required to spend 80+ hours per week pursuing their education. This will continue through residency, additional training, and the first several years of practicing medicine. When they START their career as doctors, they will have completely sacrificed their 20’s and at least part of their 30’s. And most will be more than half-a-million dollars in debt.
For specialists and surgeons, the sacrifice is greater. For trauma surgeons — you know the ones who save the lives of people who are mostly in danger of dying because of their choice to abuse drugs and alcohol, or are victims of such people — the commitment looks overwhelming even to most doctors. It requires superhuman abilities.
Being a doctor means almost no chance for a normal romantic, social, or family life. Or, if these things happen, they happen very late in life. Huge, huge sacrifice.
Anyone with this kind of work ethic, intelligence, and dedication could do literally anything and make a fortune. It would be almost impossible for it to fail.
(For example, if a person took an unskilled labor type job, like McDonalds at its average hourly wage of $9/hour, and was able to work 80 hours per week, they would earn about 900 per week. If this person saved the portion above the median US income, even with 2 weeks of unpaid leave they would be able to save about $10-12K per year. Investing this with very moderate risk should make them a millionaire in 20-25 years when they are in their early 40’s. Of course, most people that dedicated would also work smarter and make a higher hourly rate. But this is worst case scenario.)
So, tell me why anyone would want to be a doctor under Obamacare or single-payer? And how, exactly, will the quality of medicine not go down?
Right now Sanders is 75 years old comma Trump is 70, Clinton is 69.
I personally am not holding out for either of these people running in 4 years. Age in this era has a way of weeding out elders from a mental standpoint, with very few exceptions.
Personally I would vote for a younger candidate probably in their early to mid sixties.
From what I have seen from most 40 year olds is a complete lack of objectivity. There are many people who are very intelligent who are very good decision makers but they just don’t seem to want to jump into the fray & campaign for the office of the presidency.