To keep pace with doctor demand, the U.S. will need to train an additional 6,000 to 8,000 each year for the next 20 years.
We don’t need to train new doctors, just continue to import them from the third world in bigger numbers. They already make up almost a quarter of our new doctors now.
The simple solution for government bureaucrats is that as Baby Boomers qualify for Medicare, ninety+-year-olds have to get off. There are several ways to arrange this. The most politically acceptable is to ration care by not giving them doctors’ appointments. This is the long-range government health care solution for which articles such as this one are preparing us.
How ObamaCare Guts Medicare
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703649004575437311393854940.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion
WSJ projects an $8 TRILLION GUT over the next 20 years if DEATHCARE is not repealed.
Medicare currently only pay’s penny’s on the $$. More and more doc will dump Medicare patients. More docs will retire as mine plans to do rather than practice under DEATHCARE, he could easily practice 10 more years.
Why should Medicare fund the training of doctors? That is a EDUCATION issue.
“don’t cut my program!”
Pay for your own education! jeesh.
Cut ‘funding to pay for new doctors’?? On Free Republic? Really?
To say we are added 32 million people to the heath care system you must assume that all 32 million have no heath care at all now. We know this is not true. There is a need for more medical people but, We need to use the same numbers when we are talking about Obama care and the need for for doctors. Not to do so puts us on the same level as TV talking heads and democratic pundits.
Well, they don’t INTEND for Doc to treat patients.
It is their intention to have BUREAUCRATS DETERMINE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS. That’t easy to figure out.
0bamacare incentivizes less care and of course fewer providers means less access, less care and lower total expenditures. Importing doctors and other providers is also much less expensive than publicly financed training programs. Unfortunately their training is less rigorous than US doctors. But form the Left’s point of view, they will be easier to control.
A glut of foreign doctors will also lower physician and provider salaries which will further dissuade US citizens from entering the field. Eventually though, even foreign doctors will not want to come here.
Obama does NOT want American doctors.
He wants imported Islamic “doctors”
who will gladly kill non-Moslems for his 57 states.
But we can RAISE funding FOR train ENGINEERS. Thanks to his promise of "a high speed train in every spot."