Baby Boomers are at the end of the Ponzi Scheme and are totally screwed.
And yet we have plenty enough lawyers to sue the remaining doctors into malpractice insurance rate-induced insolvency. I, for one, am pleased to know that there will always be a lawyer around should I need a life-saving medical procedure...
“The current fragmented system of care desperately requires an increase in better-prepared personnel to sustain itself.”
In layman’s term - MORE MONEY IS NEEDED!
IMO - Much like the energy shortage, the rice shortage, these are crisis being perpetrated by their own industries, such not build additional refining capacity, not allowing more students into medical schools. The list goes on...
Any self-respecting evolutionist would not view this as anyting other than natural selection in a world full of random chemical reactions. For me, I wonder how many of those 21 million unborn babies aborted over the last 25 years would be practicing or becoming doctors today. Sad.
Don’t worry!...the government will fund classes on how to operate on yourself!
Eventually, the only recourse will be for the government to provide medical education free of charge to prospective students in exchange for a 5 year commitment to government management of personnel resources. They'll treat health care as they do officer training in the military.
Any youngster today who has plans to become a medical doctor would be best served to go into veterinary medicine.
With all due respect to the boomers who deserve my respect. Your generation is the leader in socialist crap programs that have led to the bankruptcy of America in more ways than one. All the generations following have continued down the path you really began en mass.
IMHO, the cost of malpractice insurance and the constant fear of malpractice law suits have ruined the practice of medicine.
Tort reform is badly needed.
President Carter’s 1980 budget proposes to prevent an impending over-supply of doctors by completely eliminating funding that has been used by medical schools for nearly a decade to expand their enrollments.
This is the best I can do. I remember Carter asking Universities to not create too many doctors. I’ll do a little more searching.
Since graduating from med school almost 30 yrs ago, the class size at my alma mater has not changed. The class composition has changed from 5% women to ~50% women. The average length of career (time from start of practice to retirement) for women is on the order of half the length for men. There are all the usual and predictable reasons for this. This has effectively decreased the pool of practicing physicians by about 25%. No sexism here; just statistics.
Baby Boomers are at the end of the Ponzi Scheme and are totally screwed.
This needs to be placed right at the feet of the people responsible. The Medical Industry. The upcoming shortage has been known for years, and the Medical Industry has known and talked about it. But they didnt increase enrollment.
On a related note, I notice that the previous good care people had received in the seventies, eighties and ninties is being replaced by the “if you dont complain, I will not address it. Example, years ago a cardiac stress test was a nomative part of a complete workup. Now you have to complain of chest pain, be short of breath or be private pay.
Say that you are short of breath on exertion and get a complete workup
The ‘47 Million Uninsured’ Myth
IBD | August 29, 2007
Posted on 08/29/2007 7:39:12 PM PDT by Kaslin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888637/posts
Socialized medicine isn’t the only way to ensure a doctor shortage. Cut fees low enough and insurance companies are ‘acheiving’ the same effect.
Get ready for foreign born and trained doctors.