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Why don't you tell me exactly why you think that there will be a shortage of doctors?
"Obamacare" is only going to give doctors more business.
As has been pointed out on several threads through the past several months.....
The Mayo in AZ stopped taking "business" in the form of medicare....look it up. They said they were losing 140 million a year. Now, tell me how you are going to pay doctors when you are losing that kind of money (and Obama loves the Mayo cost model).
A friend of mine who works there says the Mayo started getting compensation in other ways to quiet them down....but everyone knows it is a ticking time bomb.
So...if you can't pay them, they won't come.
Got it ?
Have they stopped taking private insurance? Because that's what "Obamacare" is.
Apples and Oranges.
They said show up with your checkbook. If private insurance reimbursement was enough...I would guess it would be expected.
So you are saying medicare should be converted to private insurance ?
No, of course not.
Any insurance has negotiated rates of payment for different services. Medicare reimubursements could not pay the bills. Now we understand that.
If Obamacare private insurance (through cost controls) hits the same point.....it won't pay the bills.
The rest flows from that.....doctors won't get paid or get paid less....and people quit becoming doctors.
The "golden years" for doctors have already passed (as per doctors I know). Mostly because of medicare.
Now....you think you will have medicare (bad reimbursements....causing doctors to drop it) and good Obamacare.....essentially a two tiered system ?
How long do you think that lasts ?