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Doctor Shortage Becoming Crisis Under Obamacare

hypocritexposer

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I think a few on Ranchers even predicted this.

According to a new analysis by the Association of American Medical Colleges:

• The United States now is now facing a dire shortage of some 9,000 primary care doctors — including general internists, family doctors, geriatricians, and pediatricians.

• Over the next 15 years, those shortages will worsen dramatically — particularly in rural areas, inner cities, and other areas where fewer doctors practice — with the deficit projected to hit 63,000 by 2015 and be double that number by 2025.

• Shortfalls are also predicted for a range of medical specialties, including allergy specialists, cardiologists, psychiatrists, general surgeons, and emergency doctors.

• Medical schools are not likely to churn out enough doctors to head off the crisis because fewer medical students are interested in primary care as a career because of lower pay and more insurance red tape.

What’s driving the trend, health experts say, is the nation’s growing population of older Americans using more healthcare resources. At the same time, as many as 1 in 3 practicing physicians are nearing retirement age.

What’s more, the addition of some 30 million patients newly covered by insurance — as mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) — will strain the low supply of U.S. doctors even further.

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Whitewing

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You wanna find fault?

1) Bush
2) The Party of NO
3) Partisan Politics....caused by the party of NO.....all of whom are the spawn of Bush
 

Mike

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Less Access to Physicians
In 2011, the new law provides a 10 percent Medicare bonus payment for primary care physicians and general surgeons in “shortage” areas. This is a tepid response to a growing problem.
With the retirement of 77 million baby boomers beginning in 2011, the Medicare program will have to absorb an unprecedented demand for medical services. For the next generation of senior citizens, finding a doctor will be more difficult and waiting times for doctor appointments are likely to be longer. The American Association of Medical Colleges projects a shortage of 124,000 doctors by 2025.[4]
Obamacare has not ameliorated the growing problem of projected physician shortages and has surely made it worse. Under the new law, physicians will be even more dependent on flawed government payment systems for their reimbursement. Moreover, the congressionally designed Medicare physician payment update formula, the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), initiates cuts that are so draconian that Congress goes through annual parliamentary gyrations to make sure its own handiwork does not go into effect.[5]
The new law also dramatically expands Medicaid, a poorly performing welfare program with low physician reimbursement rates, and this expansion will account for roughly half of the 34 million newly insured Americans.[6] Furthermore, the law creates an Independent Payment Advisory Board, which will recommend measures to reduce Medicare spending. Formally, the board is forbidden to make recommendations that ration care, increase revenues, or change Medicare beneficiaries’ benefits, cost-sharing, eligibility, or subsidies. For the board, reimbursement for doctors and other medical professionals seems the only target left. But payment cuts can effectively ration care.
 

Big Muddy rancher

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Saskatchewan has recruiting teams going to India looking for Drs. I think they have even loosened up the standards testing to let them practice here.

Nurses are coming here from the Philippines. Again with government assistance.
 

Whitewing

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Big Muddy rancher said:
Saskatchewan has recruiting teams going to India looking for Drs. I think they have even loosened up the standards testing to let them practice here.

Nurses are coming here from the Philippines. Again with government assistance.

The third world is coming to hospital bed near you.

Nurses I'd not be too concerned with....saw-bones would be a whole nuther ball game.
 

kolanuraven

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Not completely true on the Dr shortage.


I know of 3 practices that have expanded their operations and hired extra Dr's in new locations..
 

hypocritexposer

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kolanuraven said:
Not completely true on the Dr shortage.


I know of 3 practices that have expanded their operations and hired extra Dr's in new locations..

It will much the same in the US, as it is in Canada soon. shortages are regional

In the US, I would guess that the biggest shortages will be in the impoverished areas.
 
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