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Tam

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Prepared by AAMC Center for Workforce Studies, March 2006
that is the Association of American Medical Colleges
Currently, 744,000 doctors practice medicine in the
United States. But 250,000—one in three of these
doctors—are over age 55 and are likely to retire during
the next 20 years,
just when the baby boom generation
begins to turn 70. The annual number of physician
retirees will probably increase from more than 9,000 in
2000 to almost 23,000 in 2025. In addition, today’s
younger physicians are more focused on quality of life
issues and are less likely to work as many hours as their
predecessors.

A recent poll conducted by the AAMC
revealed that a majority of voters
believe there are too few doctors in
America currently and there will
continue to be an inadequate supply
of physicians 10 years from now.

http://www.aamc.org/workforce/helpwanted.pdf

Thy AAMC was advertizing for more doctors already in 2006 and this was before Obama put another 32 million on Medicaid.


Notice the age of 1/3 of the US doctors in 2006 and what the AAMC said they were going to be doing? Could this be 33% of the 46% that said they were going to leave their practices? :? That leaves only 13% that would have to find something else to do. How many of that 13% do you guess are female doctors that would rather stay home and raise their families than to burying themselve with the Obama workload from 32 million more Medicaid patients that they are only going to be re-emburised 50% for?

The voters already figured there was a shortage of doctors in 2006 so what is it going to be like if 46% of Doctors leave their practices? :?
 
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