Doctor Shortage?

Oh! I thought it is only in our country that there is a shortage of medical doctors. We lack doctors here because many are going to other countries... some are going to the United States of America for higher pay...

It's beyond me why more people cannot think ahead and connect the dots. Logic so often can show us right where certain policies are sure to take us.. instead, all too often these days, it seems we will have to learn through painful experience.. It's just too bad that all this hope and change will be falling for such a large part upon the heads of our children and grand children (depending on our age)..

I don't personally know any doctors who are quitting but I've heard plenty of them on radio shows and read interviews where they say they'll be losing money and they're going to go someplace else or get into another profession. One urologist said if not for her private patients she couldn't keep the office open because Medicare and Medicaid don't pay even half her operating costs per patient visit. Better stay healthy!!

I don't think American's are willing to do what is necessary, unfortunately. It's a horribly complicated issue, and government runs through it. First, regulation on regulation on regulation. I'll give you a simple example. It was mind blowing to learn how insanely expensive it is to get one dose, two pills, of regular over-the-counter aspirin at a hospital. Why? All medicines have to be given by a trained Nurse. Which of course is a good sum of money, especially at odd hours. Second, the medication is individually wrapped. Which of course is massively more expensive than an economy bottle of 200 tablets at CVS for $10. But in order to cut these prices, we'd have to remove those regulations, and at the same time prevent people for suing hospitals over... "I got sick after an non-nurse gave me an aspirin from a dirty half used bottle." But the problem is, we don't want to pay for a highly trained nurse, and expensive individually wrapped aspirin. This exact problem is all throughout the health care profession. It's everywhere. The same thing happens in India and China, but people don't complain and sue everyone. If you get sick... hey they did the best they could, and that's how it goes. In American, if you get sick, then they look for anything they can to pass the blame onto someone. That aspirin could have been contaminated because it wasn't individually wrapped. So it's the hospital's fault, and I want a million dollars. So, we have individually wrapped aspirin, and everyone suffers higher cost. The Obama Care will increase cost, but it's strategically designed to do so in a way that will drive people crazy. It's possible that Obama and Company didn't have this planned out, but it wouldn't surprise me. Insurance is all about risk assessment. The more risk the company assumes, the higher the premiums have to be on everyone. The lower the risk, the cheaper the premiums. By mandating by Federal Law, that all insurance companies MUST take more and more risk (provide more services, more coverage), they are in effect forcing those companies to charge a much much higher premiums. Normally the free-market would force premiums down. But there is no free-market because the insurance companies can't control the size and scope of the risk (the coverage). As such everyone will simply jack up their prices to cover the additional risk. Insurance premiums will climb even fast than in the past. As such, insurance companies will rake in billions on billions in profits. In the short term, the public will see additional coverage as a plus, and thank Obama for mandating better health insurance. But in the long term, the prices will spike up, and people will see insurance companies making trillions in profits, and of course, they won't blame Obama for this, but rather the insurance companies. It's a win-win for Obama. I highly doubt there will be enough educated people, to not fall for this trap.