They will be replaced by foreign doctors, with accents so thick you can cut them with a knife but not understand a word they are saying. The pittance medicare is reimbursing them is probably manna from heaven compared to what they would get in their native third world hell hole.
Agreed. But I won’t slam foreign born doctors — my cardiologist is one and he is outstanding. What I expect is that most of the good doctors will get out of the profession, and the bright minds who would have made good doctors will just figure (rightly so) that the profession just isn’t worth the years of medical school and sacrifice for so little compensation.
I also do see a rise in related fields — such as nurse practitioners. As it is now, in some places, those on Medicaid and other such programs usually are seen by nurse practitioners or others who are not doctors. A real doctor doesn’t get involved unless you’re dying. In time, this will become the norm for everyone. Maybe for a hangnail, none of this will matter. But if you have cancer, heart disease or any of a number of more serious afflictions, you might as well off yourself because you are going to die anyway.