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The new federal health-care law has raised the stakes for hospitals and schools already scrambling to train more doctors.
Experts warn there won't be enough doctors to treat the millions of people newly insured under the law. At current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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Japan has universal health insurance and by 2060, will have 3 workers for every 2 retirees. How do they solve this care problem? Simple.
Bring in foreign workers, let them stay for a few years, give them a test in Japanese that is nigh impossible to pass, then boot them from the country.
If the bill is found to be unconstitutional by the SC, the problem goes away, doesn't it, or at least allows more time for doctors to be created in this country.
If the bill is found to be unconstitutional by the SC, the problem goes away, doesn't it, or at least allows more time for doctors to be created in this country.
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The AAMC Center for Workforce Studies estimates that the United States will face a shortage of 124,000-159,000 physicians by 2025. Potential reforms, such as universal health care coverage, will add to overall demand for doctors and increase the projected shortfall by 25 percent.
Is anyone here able to get a call back from their doctor in two hours or less? I am referring to actually speaking to a physician, not a nurse or medical assistant?
We need to cut healthcare costs and a good place to start is to train more doctors. That is one investment I wouldn't mind funding with my tax dollars.
Imagine: more doctors, more competition amongst them, greater availability and more time the doctor spends with patients instead of 10 minutes at the most.
Is anyone here able to get a call back from their doctor in two hours or less? I am referring to actually speaking to a physician, not a nurse or medical assistant?
We need to cut healthcare costs and a good place to start is to train more doctors. That is one investment I wouldn't mind funding with my tax dollars.
Imagine: more doctors, more competition amongst them, greater availability and more time the doctor spends with patients instead of 10 minutes at the most.
If your an ED nurse, how much has your job added in paperwork, CYA medicine, etc since you've started. I've been on the job for 7 years now and we've doubled our workload with paperwork, testing, etc.
So...the US pays doctors better than other countries -by a wide margin.
The US is facing a shortage of doctors.
Many other nations have a sufficiency or surplus of skilled doctors.
Honestly, I'd expect the market to sort this one out quite quickly. If not, someone has been messing with it.
The market is bottlenecked at the medical school level. Even then your not going to underpay your best and brightest or you end up like the UK, importing doctors in with sub par educations.
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