One Huge Problem!!!!

You got it all wrong. There is not ONE huge problem. There are so many problems that have not been addressed. We have never had enough doctors. The people that are not covered just suffer in silence and die from non-treatment. They can't afford to go to the doctor so they don't. They wait until they get really sick and head for the emergency room. That is why a lot of our trauma hospitals have closed. General practitioners don't get paid very well. The money is in specialty medicine, so there are not enough general practitioners. Even you, with your established doctor, have to make an appointment well in advance. If you are a new patient, you may have to wait six months. I experienced that. Go to emergency and you will wait as much as 18 to 24 hours unless you go by ambulance. The only thing the health care reform will do is ensure that health care is affordable for all American citizens and no one will go bankrupt or be denied care because they don't have money. It does not address how your care will be administered. We still have a long, long way to go. Insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, doctors, hospitals,and the entire medical profession have been handed 300 million customers on a silver platter. Who else stands to gain so much from free enterprise. It is time for them to step up to the plate and come up with a plan for taking care of this gold mine. Insurance and pharmaceutical companies have taken advantage of the American public for so long, that I am sure they find it difficult to think in honest terms. Doctors and hospitals are as much the victims as are the patients. Yes, reform is needed all around. Congress's health care reform is just a drop in the bucket.

There WILL be rationing.... and the plans are already in place. Ezekiel Emmanuel and Tom Daschle are 2 of the individuals contributing heavily to this healthcare scam, and they both plan on rationing healthcare i order to save money. Not only will the quality of healthcare decrease, the price of it will go up. If anyone truly believes otherwise, they are delusional... and not understanding the true picture.

well, here in canada we have a social medical system and i am sure glad we do. my hubby is out of a job right now and before, he didnt have health coverage so if we would have gotten sick, we would have been out of luck. the bad points are (you are right) there are not enough doctors to go around and wait times are horrendous, but you take the bad with the good.

This problem has been my concern for many months. It is not only the doctors and nurses that will be in short supply, but the equipment, the hospitals, the staff etc. Nurses were in short supply for more than five years. Do people realize how much a doctor depends upon his nursing staff? If you want quality health care, you need quality medical professionals. Where will they come from? Will their be a huge influx of medical professionals from overseas? How will their credentials be verified? Lots of questions are left unanswered, not just 'how will it be paid.'

You raise an interesting question and one I've not seen before and don't know the answer though am not convinced there is such a shortfall. However, I'll first do some research and come back and offer you an answer rather than just jump in here without facts to support.