Posted on 09/14/2009 4:58:24 PM PDT by mdittmar
Primary care doctors are still in short supply in Massachusetts, and more are closing their doors to new patients.
Those accepting new patients are requiring they wait longer for an appointment.
A new study released Monday by the Massachusetts Medical Society found obstetricians and gynecologists were in short supply for the first time in the eight years the society has been conducting the analysis.
The OB-GYN shortage is adding to the doctor crunch since they serve as primary care doctors for many women.
Other specialties were in better shape. The 2009 survey found shortages in 7 of 18 specialties, down from 12 last year.
The study also found recruiting and retaining doctors remains difficult, especially at community hospitals.
this is exactly how the UK system is and yes I have lived under it unlike those left loons who want it but have no clue about it.
Of course having lived in MA too sadly the media there will never report this and if they do then I will be very surprised.
The so called media has to be the worst journalism I have ever seen and that is saying something seeing as I have lived in many countries and around this country
Surprisingly enough, I saw that it is coming up on the 11 pm news! On local nbc
mind you, I don’t yet know how they will spin it, or how much of it they will report.
But, but wait I heard MR says it was working just fine.
There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Socialized medicine. That’s how it works. Shortages of doctors, nurses, equipment, tests, medication... to be followed by poor sterilization techniques, reuse of equipment, dirty clinics, denial of life-saving procedures, and worse.
Just look how well it’s working in England.
could you let me know how they spin this please...
is it onchannel 4 5 or 7?
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Here in AZ I can call my doctor for an appointment and see him tomorrow. Sometimes, even the same day if I call in early enough. I say NO NO NO NO to OBAMA’s socialized meds.
You are spot on. Thanks for posting this.
So, here’s a question. Seriously.
If we require everyone to have health insurance that should increase the paying customer base if you will. Why would that result in a decrease in providers?
And I assuming it’s a statistically significant difference from the steady decline we’ve seen in these providers over the years.
Even if the state picked up the bill for those unable to pay, they would still be customers of the insurance company. No different than any other.
Are we seeing causation or just correlation?
In a logical world, this is right. But in the world of socialized medicine, the first thing that happens is a sharp increase in demand because everything is "free" and the insurance premiums can't cover the cost. Rather than sell realistic insurance policies, these get larded up with government mandates to cover the most politically correct ailments-- substance abuse, sexually transmitted diseases and all the crap which most normal people don't need but have to pay for anyway because it is mandated in the insurance policy.
The result is that you have a sharp increase in demand for services with a fixed supply.
Those who learn how to work the system love it because they know how to get to the front of the line . . . and make the other guy pay for their behavior.
Good...hey Mass, elections have consequences. Take a first hand look at what socialized medicine will get you.
That's easy...Bush's fault.
Is it too late to give Massachusetts back to the British?
The first thing to remember is that government is never efficient at anything. Someone once said that government only does two things well, wage war and inflate the currency. Inflating the currency is probably the one thing they do efficiently, waging war is usually done in an inefficient although it may be an effective manner.
As an example of government efficiency I offer this story told to me in 1962 by a sailor who was a crewmember on a U.S. Navy tugboat in San Francisco bay.
There was a wooden dock where the tug stayed tied up when not operating and there were a lot of large nails that had worked loose and were sticking up so that someone could trip when walking down the dock. The young man told his superior that he wanted to take a sledge hamer and drive the nails down but he was told that he had to put in a work order and let the civilian maintenance people do it. Union rules were in effect, it seems. So the work order was put in and after a long wait and I am talking weeks, one day a large flat bed truck rolled up with three men in it. One man was the driver, the second man unloaded a hammer from the truck, the third man very slowly proceeded to drive the spikes down while the other two waited, when finished he handed the hammer to the man who had unloaded it so that he could reload the hammer onto the flatbed truck. Then they got back in the truck and the driver drove them away. All this to accomplish what the sailor had volunteered to do and could have done in fifteen minutes or less.
Just a quick may cause doctor shortages. Not much of a story.
thanks Gidjet
And this is why there are certain things for which you don’t ask permission right? If necessary you ask forgiveness which is usually easier to obtain.
But at this point we haven’t involved the government and its storied efficiency. All the gov has done is mandate health insurance. They mandate car insurance too.
So we’ve forced an increase in the insured population. Why do we see a reduction in providers? The first thing they teach you in shrink school is correlation does not imply causation - so what’s happening?
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