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ABC News: Hey, This Doctor Shortage Could "Crash" Obamacare
Townhall ^ | 11/15/2012 | Guy Benson

Posted on 11/15/2012 8:43:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 11/15/2012 8:43:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Gee, this Affordable Healthcare Act just keeps getting better & better.
2 posted on 11/15/2012 8:44:51 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: SeekAndFind

We will probably need doctors a lot sooner than 2025. There’s just this little notion that we may be losing many of the doctors we have right now.


3 posted on 11/15/2012 8:46:41 AM PST by formosa (consider me galt)
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To: Puppage

RE: this Affordable Healthcare Act just keeps getting better & better.

And less and less “affordable”.


4 posted on 11/15/2012 8:47:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Think there will be new doctors entering the field if most of the profitability is taken out of it? The pay in their field will be reduced to that of a veterinarian in no time if Obamascare continues.


5 posted on 11/15/2012 8:47:43 AM PST by jsanders2001
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RE: We will probably need doctors a lot sooner than 2025.

Why not accept more applicants to Medical School?


6 posted on 11/15/2012 8:47:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s funny how many inconvenient facts the MSM is suddenly “discovering” now that the election is over.


7 posted on 11/15/2012 8:49:17 AM PST by Random_User_250 ("Democracy is indispensable to socialism." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: SeekAndFind

The next step will be to start importing doctors from third world countries as other countries with nationalized health care do to get cheap labor. Get ready for your doctor to be named Mohammed or Patel. Look at how many cases of fraud and/or illness caused by lack of proper medical procedures have been at the hands of foreign doctors and nurses. Scary stuff.


8 posted on 11/15/2012 8:49:54 AM PST by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: jsanders2001

RE: Think there will be new doctors entering the field if most of the profitability is taken out of it?

Have you ever noticed how many NURSES in our hospitals got their degree from overseas?

Here in New York alone I see many who graduated from the Philippines, India, South Korea and other places. They finished their degrees in their country, worked there for a while after graduation, then took our qualifying nurse’s exams and passed. Theyw ere then allowed to come here and work ( many eventually acquiring their green cards ).

I see the same thing happening for doctors in the next 10 years.


9 posted on 11/15/2012 8:51:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
"Why not accept more applicants to Medical School?"

And lower the standards!!!


10 posted on 11/15/2012 8:51:37 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: SeekAndFind
Government involvement in health care is costly and chaotic. However, those same points were made when Medicare was passed. Now, there is a constituency of Medicare recipients that prevents Medicare's repeal. A similar constituency will develop behind Obamacare. When you add the constituency of Obamacare recipients to the constituency of Medicare recipients, what politician will be proposing that the government get out of the health care field?

Why don't we learn from our mistakes?

11 posted on 11/15/2012 8:51:47 AM PST by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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There is a very simple fix to this problem.

Lower the standards for medical school. Lets call this new approach Affirmative Action Medical Support Program for OBAMACARE.

12 posted on 11/15/2012 8:52:18 AM PST by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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To: formosa

I suspect soon the medical profession will become like the military....you sign up and get your medical education paid, but in return you will go where they send you for your first 10 years.


13 posted on 11/15/2012 8:52:56 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: mosaicwolf
There is a very simple fix to this problem. Lower the standards for medical school. Lets call this new approach Affirmative Action Medical Support Program for OBAMACARE.

The roles of nurse pracitioners and physicians assistants will expand to include treatment of most routine illnesses and injuries.

14 posted on 11/15/2012 8:55:33 AM PST by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: SeekAndFind

My my my, how far we’ve fallen since 1993! Back then, the Clintons swore up and down that nationwide free health care for all could be financed with a larger tax on cigarettes!


15 posted on 11/15/2012 8:56:28 AM PST by NRA1995 (CNN should be PNN (Propaganda, Never News))
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No problem: we will continue importing unqualified doctors from Third World hellholes. Going to a doctor will become more dangerous than staying home.(For older and sicker patients, this is ESPECIALLY true. Anyone who doesn’t understand that Death Panels are on the horizon is naive.) Insurance fraud will skyrocket.(Even now, foreign born doctors are disproportionately involved in such fraud.) And, oh, another thing: they will all vote Democrat.


16 posted on 11/15/2012 8:57:28 AM PST by Godwin1
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To: Joe 6-pack

“How is it hangin’ esse?”


17 posted on 11/15/2012 8:58:16 AM PST by EEGator
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To: SeekAndFind

Only stupid people will become doctors.....

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18 posted on 11/15/2012 8:59:53 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (0BAMA CHOSE to watch a MUSLIM SNUFF FILM rather than a HEROIC AMERICAN RESCUE FILM)
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19 posted on 11/15/2012 8:59:53 AM PST by ari-freedom (It's the bennies, stupid.)
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Why would anyone bust their a** for 9 years just to get overworked and underpaid?


20 posted on 11/15/2012 9:00:03 AM PST by EEGator
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