Tens of thousands, perhaps even a hundred thousand of more of qualified US applicants to US medical schools were turned away over the last few decades. Academic and political medicine IS at fault for that if there is a real “shortage” now.
Tell your kids to go to law school, work directly for the government outside of medicine, or run for public office.
National health care will mean less qualified doctors and more care done by non doctor caregivers, no doubt about it. US kids will no longer be motivated to put up with the ever increasing crap and capped salaries that national health care would bring. This is ALREADY HAPPENING WITHOUT NATIONAL HEALTH CARE.
Lawyers always survey among the tops in job dissatisfaction. Now that I think of it, not too many accountants are fired up about their choice of careers and engineers and IT guys are always posting here with advice not to follow in their footsteps.
What’s a guy or gal to do?
I agree. Unfortunately, the media and Democrats are hell bent on “fixing” a problem that doesn’t exist (insurance) and they are using the mess caused by the doctor shortage as an excuse. If the media would spend only 1% of its effort trying to fix the problem that DOES exist, we would have solved this problem long ago.