Doctors moving away from US (healthcare, financial, elect, money)

[summers73]

Reduced Medicare payments, more regulation...buh-bye...

Why one doctor quit healthcare in America - Apr. 25, 2013

[sol11]

Originally Posted by summers73

Reduced Medicare payments, more regulation...buh-bye...

Why one doctor quit healthcare in America - Apr. 25, 2013

Most people who are in the healthcare business says there is already a shortage of primary care physicians, and that this will only get worse in the near future.

[baxendale]

Who would have guessed it, the doctor is making more money, with more vacation time, in the socialist country of Australia.

[cuebald]

Originally Posted by baxendale

Who would have guessed it, the doctor is making more money, with more vacation time, in the socialist country of Australia.

And not working as hard, since they have no handguns to cause injuries.

[middle-aged mom]

Primary care sole practitioners are a dying breed, just about everywhere.

Primary care is increasingly being provided by physicians assistants and nurse practitioners as a part of larger practices. Patients outcomes are similar.

What this MD failed to mention was the financial incentives being offered to medical practices to convert to electronic health records. That this MD had 5000 patients and no system says something about his operation. Sounds like he was ready for a change and chose to be an employee of a group practice in Australia.

[summers73]

Originally Posted by baxendale

Who would have guessed it, the doctor is making more money, with more vacation time, in the socialist country of Australia.

Australia is dog-eat-dog capitalist my friend, perhaps more so than America in many respects.

[summers73]

Originally Posted by cuebald

And not working as hard, since they have no handguns to cause injuries.

Yeah, I guess it's easier to deal with stabs and lacerations from knives and swords the thugs in Australia used instead.

[EmeraldCityWanderer]

Originally Posted by summers73

Australia is dog-eat-dog capitalist my friend, perhaps more so than America in many respects.

With single payer socialist healthcare...totally more then America.

[urbanlife78]

So let me get this straight, the article is about one doctor who decided to leave the US and practice in Australia two years ago....is the OP trying to say that we should be more like Australia so that we are more attractive to the doctor that left the US to practice in Australia?

I would love to see this country be more like Australia....wait till the gun nuts here about this thread, they are gonna crap their pants.

[summers73]

Originally Posted by EmeraldCityWanderer

With single payer socialist healthcare...totally more then America.

One aspect. What about how mortgages are underwritten? What about corporate socialism? What about regulations? Far more corporate regulations in American than in Australia.