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It is pretty laughable for the ignorant to believe that our most well educated citizens are somehow mindless drones incapable of performing any other task other than medicine. But, such is the way of jealous failures who couldn't see through a rigorous program such as theirs.
Most well educated? I beg to differ. But anyway, there is no way that 83% of doctors can find jobs doing something else, especially in this economy, unless it's flipping burgers at McDonald's.
I work with a group of five doctors. NONE of them have any plans to leave medicine any time soon. In fact, the only thing any of them have said about the ACA is that they'll have to learn a different set of rules to go by. If you think inusurance doesn't have a lot of rules and regs dictating what doctors can do, you have another think coming.
(My sample size is bigger than yours)
BTW, just saw the personal attack. Stay classy summers!
Curious, to think, folks trust Docs with their life, but think they have no other
skills to contribute in the workforce
I did not say that! You should know, as a physician's wife, there is no way that the economy could absorb all these new entrants to the workforce, especially if they want to earn what they're earning now. Any doctor that quits should have a well thought-out plan before doing so.
People are posting about what docs could do, but my question was what do they think they will do?
Who needs doctors anyway. Except when you need any kind of medication. Or when you have a health problem that aspirin doesn't fix. Or when you are not in perfect health. Or when you start getting old.
I guess we do need doctors, and it does cost a bit to educate a doctor and put him in practice. I suppose the Boy King will simply expect them to work for very little, and then of course they must turn over what they make to Washington.
Obama's incredible lack of intellect should make Occidental, Columbia and Harvard shut their doors and deny they ever came up with the reverse discrimination of so-called Affirmative Action.
"MedPAC's recommendation spreads the cost of repealing the SGR among all the actors in the Medicare program. It recognizes that slowing the growth of physician spending alone will not solve Medicare's fiscal problem. It provides needed relief from the pressures of a failed cost control measure and allows us to focus our energies on developing a payment system that works."
Medicaid, I've said it before, might as well pay the docs with chickens and goats
There's a joke in the profession, that if you take a Medicaid patient, you might as well
give them money when they walk in the door....
With all that aside, even with AHA, poor folks will have access to health care via
clinics, teaching hospitals and such...That's what residencies are for.
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