They will start drafting doctors I guess. This is not a government that smiles on personal freedom.
When the government is the sole source of student loans, who can guess what the terms will be for medical students?
Draft? How about repealing the 13th amendment for people with medical degrees. Who are they to withhold their skills from the Collective?
That’s the thing that most leftist sheep are blind about - someone will have to “hold the whip” in order to “cooperate” with their plan.
The leftist “shepherds” already know this, however. They envision themselves holding the whip.
i have heard that one being batted around.
welcome to soviet Amerika
Drafting doctors into public option health care
Many docs feel like slaves to the gov't and insurance companies already. Large numbers of them will choose to start collecting Social Security, leave the country or organize for collective bargaining like other unions.
So they draft doctors. Let’s follow that scenario...
One reason doctors make big bucks is the insane hours and patient load they accept every day. 12-hour shifts, multi-booking patients, at-home and in-transit fielding of phone calls & paperwork, etc. ... and despite all that voluntary extra effort (compensated by high pay) the demand for doctors strains supply. Force them to work, and force them to accept reduced pay, and Congress will find the demand still cannot be met - because they will work only the hours they are compelled to, will shrug when overloaded instead of work harder, and will spend more time on paperwork than patients; why should they do otherwise when neither at liberty to act on their own choices nor compensated enough for what they are compelled to?
We barely have enough doctors as it is now; a doctor draft could never supply the demand.
they could, in theory, force each potential doctor to work at some “necessary” district for a period of time before a license would be granted. unlikely, but possible.