This assumes, of course, that they will be permitted to quit.
Just as we “freep” polls to send a message, there is an element of manipulating the data here because physicians know how terrible this bill is, for them and for medicine i general, and even those who won’t quit want to send a message. The actual number who quit would be much less, probably 15% to 24% of our physicians, but that’s still huge. Socialism is not going to be pretty if Obama and Pelosi impose it by force.
No problemo! Will just import 3rd world medical school graduates to take up the slack!
It’s what England did!
This health care bill is a great thing... for the Caribbean nations and Latin America.
Stable countries close to the United States will see a huge influx of highly trained doctors opening new clinics, and huge numbers of “vacationing” Americans and Canadians willing to pay extra airfare to get procedures that will no longer be available north of the border.
If I was a Mexican mafia type, I would stop running drugs and start building hospitals.
Just “going Galt” is all.
I doubt many will actually quit, even if they are going to take a hit if it passes, they still make really good money and will continue to work.
I hate to say “I told you so.” But I did.
Good! The sooner that we dump most of the government positions and special interest waste through the default to come, the better. Here’s something related.
New study is not going to make the President very happy (Obamacare a job-killer)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2472714/posts
There are lots of alternative non-clinical career choices available in industry including, but not limited to:
Physician Consultants
Physician Writers
Physician Executives
Physician Entrepenuers
Physician Inventors
Physician Professors
I have done most of the above at one point or another during my career, and am still involved in a number of entrepeneurial projects that will keep me busy for many years, including the development of DNA coated gold nanoparticles that can be implanted into tumors to measure the radiation dose being delivered. Likewise my business partners and I are building cancer centers in the middle east and may build a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant there as well.
There are also possibilities of continuing clinical medicine with cash-only practices (until Obama finds a way to end this) and the possibility of migrating to states like Virginia which has voted to reject Obamacare.
There are also non-medical careers that one might consider. Anyone intelligent enough to graduate from medical school should be able to compete in the job market. All of us have undergraduate degrees in a variety of fields that would provide some alternative employment opportunities. Most of us have graduated at or near the top of our class. I know there are lots of physicians who are going to seminars and mapping out strategies to exit clinical medicine and start alternative careers. I also saw an article about a physician who was selling clothes on ebay, making more money than she made seeing patients.
And then there are those like me who are close enough to retirement, who may just say enough is enough and get out of clinical medicine and become a full time Spyder Ryder, heading off to Galt Gulch
Throw in one more problem: the state of education in our country raises serious doubts as to our ability to produce students capable of handling the rigors of medical school.
In the future, most of the doctors you see will come from foreign countries (which is fine with me- I’d rather have a properly trained physician from Turkey than an American who got through a medial school dumbed down to meet the abilities of poorly educated students)
The supply of US born doctors will decrease dramatically as occurred in Britain. The US will follow the British model and import jihadi Muslim doctors. Sweet!
I bet there will be more than that.
That means about half of the lawyers will be out of a job as well! Man, are they going to be pissed off.
They could always move up to a higher paying jog like plumber, brick layer, HVAC tech.,,,,
Bumping this thread again just in case some FReepers are getting tired of calling / faxing / e-mailing Congress critters...