(November 26, 2014 at 10:11 pm)Surgenator Wrote: So your complaint is that we can't produce doctors in less than 4 years to accomodate the increase in patients? Thats a good thing because becoming a doctor should take longer than 4 years. Becoming an experience nurse should also take longer than 4 years.
Quote:The reason Obamacare is an abysmal failure is because it doesn't provide health care. All it does is redistributes the existing healthcare while giving insurance company fat-cats a big government hand out.
Are you suggesting that Obamacare force people into the healthcare business? Because that is the only way government can "provide" the healthcare your asking for.
Finally, having more patients does NOT constitute as a disaster.
Obamacare is a disaster because it did not increase the amount of healthcare and creates a situation whereby people do not have as much of an incentive to produce more healthcare.
For medicare and medicaid patients the government sets the price of medical care arbitrarily low so doctors won't want to take on these patients. The only doctors that will in significant numbers will be those that work for large practices. Your typical family doctor who is a sole practitioner is going to be a thing of the past.
Last, I believe our government could...if it set its mind to it...recruit and train up 100,000 doctors in 10 years.
Making healthcare affordable is simple. Flood the market with healthcare and prices will drop.