[1rudeboy]

Yes, this will be on the midterm exam.

[2banana]

Or to simplify:

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
— RR

Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem
— RR

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.
— RR

[jsanders2001]

I have a friend that manages an office for 7 or 8 doctors. He told me that under the new ACA guidelines that if the patient doesn’t pay the portion in that they are supposed to that the doctor’s office has to pay it. Now I’m not exactly sure what he was talking about but I’ll get him to tell me more and report back on it. It sounded like the bottom line is that doctors will be turning away a lot of patients that are covered by the ACA.

[jsanders2001]

I have a friend that manages an office for 7 or 8 doctors. He told me that under the new ACA guidelines that if the patient doesn’t pay the portion in that they are supposed to that the doctor’s office has to pay it. Now I’m not exactly sure what he was talking about but I’ll get him to tell me more and report back on it. It sounded like the bottom line is that doctors will be turning away a lot of patients that are covered by the ACA.

[Conspiracy Guy]

“Why We Are Seeing Long Waits And Shortages of Doctors and Basic Medicines in Health Care?”

Surely it’s just a coincidence or it’s due to white privilege or it’s Lincoln’s fault.

[raybbr]

The same graphs could be applied to the cost of college tuition...

[baddog 219]

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“For any given price for doctor services, the quantity of doctor hours available is certainly going to increase as the barriers to entry to the profession are raised.”

This seems exactly backwards to me. The harder it is to become a doc, the fewer docs there will be, and the fewer hours of doc time will exist.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

FDA Current Drug Shortages Index (bookmark for later)

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/DrugShortages/ucm050792.htm

And long before Obamacare, the US medicine had moved to the “push” supply system. This costs a lot less, but does involve the risk of shortages. As far as medicine goes, the federal government has long been inhibiting pharmaceutical production, as well as making it extremely more expensive.