obamacare=Doctor Shortage (wages, health care, insurance, school)

[hogstooth]

Thanks to obama will your next surgery be done by the hospital janitor?

Doctor Shortage Likely to Worsen With Health Law
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/he...=MYWAY&ei=5065

President Obama’s health care law is expected to extend insurance coverage to more than 300,000 people by 2014. But coverage will not necessarily translate into care: Local health experts doubt there will be enough doctors to meet the area’s needs. There are not enough now.

This is a typically long anecdote-filled article from The Times. In it, they chronicle how even though medical coverage will be expanded under Obama-Care, there will be fewer doctors to meet the increased need.

But The Times never blames the lower doctors’ fees and greater requirements in Obama-Care as the cause of doctors hanging up their shingles. Instead, the real point of the piece is that something must be done to make doctors go to ‘economically depressed’ areas, instead going to the ‘rich areas’ where they like to practice now.

And, as we know, thanks to the government’s control over student loans, it is only a question of time before the government will tell doctors where they have to practice if they want to go to medical school. And this is really just the beginning of the drumbeat for that.

Which, by the way, is how doctors used to be controlled in the USSR and Red China, and still are controlled in North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela.

[Kenneth-Kaunda]

but where will all these doctors go though?

if they don't like the new wages being offered, what can they do about it?

How about a system, of a govt. subsidised medical college, with the stipulation that newly qualified doctors have to work for a number of years in a certain area - sounds like a reasonable idea to me.

and let's not forget, many of these doctors earn 400K - why should they get so much and make everyone else pay for their top of the range cars etc..