What Obama meant to say

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Danzig

it's akin to your car insurer requiring everyone have 'full coverage' regardless of year of the vehicle, its value, etc.

Only if those with newer, more expensive vehicles and good driving records supplement insuring the pieces of shiat and bad drivers (DUI's, accidents etc.) with full coverage in the form of higher premiums.

However when your car can't get into the mechanic/body shop right away because one of the piece of shiats described above is being fixed, it's manageable although far from fair.

When you can't get into the Dr. it's a different story. Not like you can rent a heart stint or hip for a few days.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Only if those with newer, more expensive vehicles and good driving records supplement insuring the pieces of shiat and bad drivers (DUI's, accidents etc.) with full coverage in the form of higher premiums.

However when your car can't get into the mechanic/body shop right away because one of the piece of shiats described above is being fixed, it's manageable although far from fair.

When you can't get into the Dr. it's a different story. Not like you can rent a heart stint or hip for a few days.

In 10-20 years from now, there is going to be a huge shortage of doctors. There is a large percentage of the population that is moving into their retirement years. Insurance companies have been paying less and less to doctors over the last 15 years. I know doctors who were making $500,000 a year who are now only making $200,000 a year and it's only going to get worse with the ACA. Some people may think that $200,000 a year is a lot of money but it's really not that much if you have a family and live in an expensive area.

If doctors continue to make less and less money, it's going to be hard to convince our brightest young people to go hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt with student loans to go into a field that doesn't even pay that well.

I know a couple of doctors who retired relatively young (around 70 years old) because they were fed up with not only making less and less money but also fed up with having to deal with the bureaucracy.

I think this is going to be a big problem. Not only do I think we're going to end up with a big shortage of doctors but I think the quality of doctors is going to go way downhill.

Here are a couple of articles about the subject:

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/11/...ge-of-doctors/

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/02/health...ctor-shortage/

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

In 10-20 years from now, there is going to be a huge shortage of doctors. There is a large percentage of the population that is moving into their retirement years. Insurance companies have been paying less and less to doctors over the last 15 years. I know doctors who were making $500,000 a year who are now only making $200,000 a year and it's only going to get worse with the ACA. Some people may think that $200,000 a year is a lot of money but it's really not that much if you have a family and live in an expensive area.

If doctors continue to make less and less money, it's going to be hard to convince our brightest young people to go hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt with student loans to go into a field that doesn't even pay that well.
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We sat next to a whole group of Canadians all BC w/e and I think like them we will have 'sufficient Dr.'s' however they will be from foreign countries.

A good mechanic with a shop can make 200K/year. Less about 7 years of their life in school.

Can't wait till I'm waiting for some overweight, smelly, smoking slob, subsidized by me to finish so I can see a Dr. who I can't understand.

[joeydb]

3 Years of lies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGAdrQ2RpdM

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

In 10-20 years from now, there is going to be a huge shortage of doctors. There is a large percentage of the population that is moving into their retirement years. Insurance companies have been paying less and less to doctors over the last 15 years. I know doctors who were making $500,000 a year who are now only making $200,000 a year and it's only going to get worse with the ACA. Some people may think that $200,000 a year is a lot of money but it's really not that much if you have a family and live in an expensive area.

If doctors continue to make less and less money, it's going to be hard to convince our brightest young people to go hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt with student loans to go into a field that doesn't even pay that well.

I know a couple of doctors who retired relatively young (around 70 years old) because they were fed up with not only making less and less money but also fed up with having to deal with the bureaucracy.

I think this is going to be a big problem. Not only do I think we're going to end up with a big shortage of doctors but I think the quality of doctors is going to go way downhill.

Here are a couple of articles about the subject:

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/11/...ge-of-doctors/

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/02/health...ctor-shortage/

The shortage of doctors is due to the AMA strictly limiting the number of people who are accepted to medical school. This predates the ACA by many years. Here's an article from 2005 about the upcoming doctor shortage:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/...shortage_x.htm

Money quote:

The marketplace doesn't determine how many doctors the nation has, as it does for engineers, pilots and other professions. The number of doctors is a political decision, heavily influenced by doctors themselves.

As the article states, the prediction was that baby boomer doctors would be retiring within 10 years. If doctors that are 70 are now retiring, as you say in your post, then that's right on schedule, as they are the last of the pre-baby boomer MDs (Baby Boom years began in 1946)

There are many, many talented men and women who would love to go into the medical profession, but the AMA has huge influence in keeping them out, plus a lot of the cost of training residents is subsidized by the government, which has put caps on how much they pay (yes, those doctors whining about their med school debts are still subsidized by the government).

That said if these docs you know are retiring because they're mad they aren't making as much money as before, good. I'd hate to be a patient to a doctor who is in it only for the money.

Seriously, read the article. It's very informative (even if it is from USA Today) and as I said, predates the ACA by five years. The doctor shortage has NOTHING to do with the ACA, and everything to do with the AMA.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

The shortage of doctors is due to the AMA strictly limiting the number of people who are accepted to medical school. This predates the ACA by many years. Here's an article from 2005 about the upcoming doctor shortage:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/...shortage_x.htm

Money quote:


As the article states, the prediction was that baby boomer doctors would be retiring within 10 years. If doctors that are 70 are now retiring, as you say in your post, then that's right on schedule, as they are the last of the pre-baby boomer MDs (Baby Boom years began in 1946)

There are many, many talented men and women who would love to go into the medical profession, but the AMA has huge influence in keeping them out, plus a lot of the cost of training residents is subsidized by the government, which has put caps on how much they pay (yes, those doctors whining about their med school debts are still subsidized by the government).

That said if these docs you know are retiring because they're mad they aren't making as much money as before, good. I'd hate to be a patient to a doctor who is in it only for the money.

Seriously, read the article. It's very informative (even if it is from USA Today) and as I said, predates the ACA by five years. The doctor shortage has NOTHING to do with the ACA, and everything to do with the AMA.

we are experiencing shortages in many fields, not just medical.

our education system takes a lot of heat, but it's actually doing a good job. however, one of the things that keeps many kids from learning is poverty. it's a circular issue.
kids in lower income households do poorly in school, because of their environment. but to get them out of that environment in future, they need education, so as to break them and future generations out of that cycle.
but, food stamps just got cut. politicians attack welfare programs, won't allow minimum wage increases (well, those who control the purse strings won't allow it), and then we wonder why we don't have enough people for skilled labor positions. so, the working poor continue to get pummelled, and then we complain that we have working poor, and no skilled labor. our conditions and decisions cause the very problems we rail against.

[joeydb]

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Seriously, read the article. It's very informative (even if it is from USA Today) and as I said, predates the ACA by five years. The doctor shortage has NOTHING to do with the ACA, and everything to do with the AMA.

The prospect of 14 million largely subsidized, newly insured should be of no concern.

The AMA may be at fault for the shortage of Dr.'s but the ACA will be responsible for the flood of new patients, clogging up a system running at its max.

[joeydb]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/07/politi...acare-apology/

"I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me"

Who the f**k is he kidding?

They wouldn't BE in this SITUATION without his stupid law!

[Danzig]

well, at least they know he 'hears' them.