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Association of Medical Colleges: Even if doctors do not quit, massive shortage coming because of law

Read More: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/09/report-83-percen...
When almost all doctors consider quitting, even if just 10% quit it's will drive up the price of healthcare, drive down the quality and many qualified people will quit med school.
This is disastrous and what can the right say but 'see, I told you so'?
"We've had a shortage of doctors for some time now"
So this is a step in the right direction? Do you solve fires by pouring gasoline on your house? Of course not. It's making a bad situation worse.
"One of the reasons is the cost."
How do you drive down cost? You increase supply. LOWER regulations so more people can get in the medical field.
" If you graduate from med school with a huge student loan to pay off, it's difficult to do"
Why are student loans expensive? BECAUSE OF GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION.
"Once you become a doctor, the liability insurance can kill you."
YES AND LIBERAL TRIAL LAWYERS AND IGNORANT JURIES IN LIBERAL CITIES ARE TO BLAME.
"My niece and her husband are both OB/GYNs and they moved to VA last year to practice because the insurance is so much lower."
Yes, businesses move to states with less government. Coincidence?
Obamacare is taking advantage of a problem to make it much, much worse.
Repeal Obamacare and use the free market. It works. Socialism doesn't.
Let me guess, you voted for Obama, yes?
I'm not sure what you mean when you say lower regulations so more people can get into medical school. Are you speaking about lowering grade requirements (which I would be against) or do you mean institute some program whereby medical school costs could be mitigated if the student were willing to agree to some form of community service in payment. That is something I feel could work.
And, yes, I did vote for Obama. After eight years of Bush, I would have voted for Kermit the Frog.
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is estimated to extend coverage to 16 million more people by 2014. The legislation includes several provisions aimed at improving access to primary care, and compensating providers who take on newly covered patients . Major initiatives include new training grounds for primary care workforce, improved reimbursement especially for Medicaid patients, and new models for primary care services within a coordinated health system.
Training
ACA is expected to add 15,000 new providers to the workforce by 2015.The 2009 Economic Stimulus package included $300 million for the National Health Service Corps which recruits the primary care workforce in underserved areas. An additional $230 million in award grants will go to “teaching health centers” to start primary care residency programs.
Financial incentives
ACA includes 10% bonuses for primary care providers under the Medicare fee schedule starting in 2011. Primary care service reimbursements will increase at the state level from Medicaid rates to Medicare rates by 2014.
ACOs
ACA legislation highlights the potential of Accountable Care Organizations (ACO), patient-centered, integrated services, to improve coordination in the...
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is estimated to extend coverage to 16 million more people by 2014. The legislation includes several provisions aimed at improving access to primary care, and compensating providers who take on newly covered patients . Major initiatives include new training grounds for primary care workforce, improved reimbursement especially for Medicaid patients, and new models for primary care services within a coordinated health system.
Training
ACA is expected to add 15,000 new providers to the workforce by 2015.The 2009 Economic Stimulus package included $300 million for the National Health Service Corps which recruits the primary care workforce in underserved areas. An additional $230 million in award grants will go to “teaching health centers” to start primary care residency programs.
Financial incentives
ACA includes 10% bonuses for primary care providers under the Medicare fee schedule starting in 2011. Primary care service reimbursements will increase at the state level from Medicaid rates to Medicare rates by 2014.
ACOs
ACA legislation highlights the potential of Accountable Care Organizations (ACO), patient-centered, integrated services, to improve coordination in the healthcare system. ACOs include central “medical homes’ where primary care is accessed, and coordination takes place between specialists. The ACO’s patient-focused approach is thought to both curb costs and improve quality of care, with outcomes monitored by cost-effective outcomes criteria and patient assessments and financial incentives for multi-specialty providers to collaborate and coordinate patient care. [13]
CHCs
ACA increases the number of community health centers (CHCs), which provide continuous health care, coordination of care, and a large variety of health and welfare services. CHCs have been associated with a host of positive health outcomes and focus on primary care to underserved populations.
Prevention
New universal coverage of recommended preventive care will improve patient need for and access to primary care providers on a regular basis. With a number of preventive services covered without cost sharing in all insurance plans (in the “essentials benefit package”) primary care will be sought more regularly.
1. Less people will get care, not more.
2. Quality will decrease.
3. Costs will go up.
4. Fraud will reach never before seen proportions.
Thanks liberals for ruining the best medical care on the planet.
Costs are not supposed to go up. They are supposed to go down, that was why the mandate was in place... to level the playing field.
Here is a question for you Art.... do you think it was ok for insurance companies to deny coverage after someone had paid all their premiums? Here is another, do you think it is a good thing when a child with a life threatening disease can not get any insurance? Family does not qualify for medicaid, but can not get insurance either. What are they supposed to do? Just let their child die? Many have died in this country, because they can not get care, can not get insurance, and are on their own 100%. Do you really think this is a good thing?
Which country with our population is better?
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There are 700,000 doctors in the country: they polled 700 affluent, hard-right doctors who treat the rich 1% and naturally they said they have THOUGHT about quitting.
How many REALLY would quit their lucrative practice in protest? NONE, that's how many.
No one wants Obama OR Obamacare, but man, I'm so tired of all the doomsayers. FIGHT BACK WITH ACTUAL POLICIES, not another "scary poll!"
"Sally Nelson reports in Daily Caller that America will face a shortage of 90,000 doctors in eight years regardless if current doctors quit. The problem quickly increases to a shortage of 130,000 doctors by 2025 according to Len Marquez, the director of government relations at the American Association of Medical Colleges."
Sounds like THAT'S a LOT of JOB OPENINGS. Someone GO FOR IT and stop complaining without doing a darn thing to correct the problem.
Who said anything about no training? What are you, a 3rd-grader? The article mentioned 90,000 openings 8 years from now...hmmmm...how long would it take to train? 8 years? OH MY! Again I say, GO FOR IT.
You people try so hard to overturn rational thoughts and statements that you wind up just being stupid. Get a grip, would you?
When you have a rational thought get back too me!
We won't be losing any doctors--nit wit--except those ready to retire. Seriously, you think a real doctor would quit his practice as a protest?
Come on.
I read how the survey was conducted: "Survey was faxed to 16,233 randomly selected offices from April 19, 2012 - May 6, 2012" http://www.dpmafoundation.org...
So over 15,000 doctors threw the survey request in the trash- that says a lot about these results
The AMA supported the PPACA. I think that carries a bit more weight.
http://docs4patientcare.org/_...
http://www.aapsonline.org/ind...
Facts is facts...even when you don't like them....
Not scary for me because I am old enough to know I don't want life saving measures used on me anyway, don't want any massive surgery, don't want any chemotherapy, don't want any radiation therapy. I will get no closer to it than I absolutely must. But I am sorry my stepchildren and grandchildren will have to put up with it.
He said 3 years ago that if government health care passes he would have to drop his elderly medicare/cade patients because he couldn't afford them AND he would likely just retire rather than be chackled by government regulations. He also said that the majority of those he worked with and those he spoke with would be doing the same. they planed to stay in business long enough to be cleared of all debts and tehn shut the doors and only practice privately for those who would be paying cash in their homes... basicly only the very wealthy will have care now.
Our family doctor who has treated 3 genetartions of my family told us that was the plan for many and he said that 2 yeras ago.