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| Topic: Got Health Care ... ? Not for long ... | |
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Edited by
Kings_Knight
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Tue 04/13/10 07:12 AM
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Didn't take long after the forced passage of 'DeathCare' for the announcement that our medical schools can't provide enough doctors to keep up with the additional imposed load of 32 (?) million uninsured patients to treat. The ones who wanted this huge load of elephant dung to pass because 'the poor' and 'the illegals' 'deserve' health care as some specious and fictitious 'right' are gonna have 'gut check time' arriving earlier than they ever expected. Now they get to live with the reality of whether the doc should treat THEM and THEIR medical needs or the medical needs of those 'poor' and 'illegal' FIRST. In short, they now get the chance to 'walk their talk'. I wanna see how 'caring' and 'understanding' they are when the doc HAS to (by law) see the 'uninsured' and the 'illegal' BEFORE he can see their Little Timmy 'cuz he's running a fever ... payback's a-comin', y'all. Stand proud. It's 'change you can believe in'.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304506904575180331528424238.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond Medical Schools Can't Keep Up As Ranks of Insured Expand, Nation Faces Shortage of 150,000 Doctors in 15 Years 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. That shortfall is predicted despite a push by teaching hospitals and medical schools to boost the number of U.S. doctors, which now totals about 954,000. The greatest demand will be for primary-care physicians. These general practitioners, internists, family physicians and pediatricians will have a larger role under the new law, coordinating care for each patient. The U.S. has 352,908 primary-care doctors now, and the college association estimates that 45,000 more will be needed by 2020. But the number of medical-school students entering family medicine fell more than a quarter between 2002 and 2007. A shortage of primary-care and other physicians could mean more-limited access to health care and longer wait times for patients. |
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