Posted on 06/27/2009 10:12:21 AM PDT by gusopol3
President Obama's ambitious plan for radically increasing the government's role in the nation's health care system misses one critical detail: There aren't enough primary care physicians in America now and their numbers are declining. That means government won't be able to deliver the expanded health care Obama is promising to millions of uninsured people. With access to primary care already deteriorating in many parts of the country, Obamacare will make it even harder to get a doctor's appointment without a lengthy wait. "The politicians don't talk about who's going to do this extra work," Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and author of the 1993 book "Your Doctor Is Not In," told The Examiner. "Promised coverage is not the same thing as care. All you're getting is a place in the waiting lines."
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The idiots in congress tend to overlook the loss of workforce when people decide to retire rather than work for peanuts...and they also miscalculate how many people will NOT be paying income taxes when they are out of work. The IRS is already showing a huge drop in revenues this year... The projected numbers and the real numbers are radically different.
President Clinton gave NYC 400 million a year not to teach doctors - does anyone know if this is still being paid?
Pakistani and Indian doctors will increase. However, the ones I know came from the caste system.
there are already too many physician assistants in circulation.
the three that i’ve seen are unsatisfactory.
Especially when the Doctors realize their incomes have been capped.
It already is!
Why bother to come here when the financial incentive is being attenuated?
Thank God that congress wrote an ammendment to Obamacare exempting themselves from any of this. This way at least we wen't be waiting behind Barry, Shelly , Nanci and Barney since they'll have their own elite system.
The only kind of post-partum ‘abortion’ I agree with is aborting 0bamacare.
I think they’re very good at physical exam and documentation, but to have the level of expertise os a physician,they’d have to be ....physicians!
“the three that I’ve seen are unsatisfactory”
Those “unsatisfactory” ones are usually on the lists of the “cheapest” insurances. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to tell patients they may want to get a second opinion before being operated on by a few of “those unsatisfactory” kinds of docs.
This has no more to do with providing health care than the Cap & Trade has to do with climate change!
It’s all smoke and mirrors!
We have met the enemy.
All it takes to destroy a nation is a pack of clueless politicians.
My sister loved her crooked-Democtate Congressman because: “He does wonderful things for our district.”
the free market, if only the bamster would let it work, is beginning to show results. the ama is especially fearful of the "minute clinic" industry that's popping up. just wait til walmart jumps into healthcare with both feet
obama and his socialist minions MUST be stopped
I think that many of the specialists will just move offshore and open clinics in places like the Caribbean where those left with enough wealth can still pay whatever is necessary to get proper care. Most of us, however, will be out of luck.
And, the nurses. They make pretty good money now. Obama will surely tell them they make too much. Then patients will be looked after by people who were previously techs and porters. After all, they were in the room sometimes when the nurses did their thing. They should be able to pick it up quickly.
The next illogical step is simply to redefine what is a physician, and what can be done by “allied health professionals”. Sounds crazy, but hey- the entire world is upside down.
If the current trend continues, much of health care will be delivered by non-physicians. And much of dentistry by non-dentists.
It’s really the only way to do it on the cheap.
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