HEALTH REFORM LAW WILL WORSEN DOCTOR SHORTAGE

HEALTH REFORM LAW WILL WORSEN DOCTOR SHORTAGE


April 19, 2010

"Among its many harmful effects, the new health reform law will
significantly worsen a doctor shortage in America. Without the bill,
the United States will be short by an estimated 85,000 to 200,000
doctors by 2020. Retiring baby boomer physicians are not being
replaced in sufficient numbers to meet demand anticipated before the
bill’s passage, let alone the enormous increase in demand generated by
the new law. By forcing every American to buy a single product, health
insurance, the new health law will cause more people to seek medical
care than ever before.

Combine the shortage of physicians with the explosion in demand and
you have the makings of a disaster characteristic of countries around
the world where socialized medicine reigns, including the need to get
in a cue for care, rationed services and equipment, and the demise of
patient-centric, quality care in favor of a one-size-fits-all,
bureaucratized care. In short, we will soon experience the horrors of
the further destruction of market forces in the health care sector and
it will means less timely and quality care for everyone.

Many Americans who are not presently insured rely on self-help in most
instances to handle routine colds and flu, sinus infections,
allergies, and other non-life threatening ailments. When the health
care law kicks in, they will be forced into the ranks of the insured
and they will have no financial incentive to avoid visiting the doctor
or hospital. Required to pay for insurance or be covered by a medical
insurance plan, they will have every incentive to take advantage of
the new plans. In large numbers all across the United States, they
will seek medical care for everything from a common cold or virus to
serious conditions. They will place extraordinary demands on the
health care system, clogging offices, engendering administrative
nightmares, and forcing administrators and their federal overseers to
make difficult choices concerning who gets access and to what kinds of
services and who must wait for care. The system is about to be
overwhelmed.


At the same time, fee caps common in Medicare billing will now reach
almost all services. Those caps already force physicians and hospitals
to limit time with patients, cut services, avoid provision of premium
care in favor of unquestionably Medicare covered care, and lose
opportunities for more lucrative patient interactions. As fee caps
become common for all services, physicians and hospitals will
experience a financial squeeze to a degree previously unknown. As
insurance companies, serving as proxies for the federal government,
exert even more pressure on physicians by second-guessing their
professional judgment and overruling their recommendations for patient
care, case by case the practice of medicine will become even more
bureaucratized. In addition, far greater record keeping and
administrative burdens will further enmesh providers in red tape.

The economics of providing medical care will worsen for those who
provide it, reducing their enthusiasm for working in the profession
and enhancing the value of alternative occupations. Many already fed
up with the amount of regulation and the degree of limitation on
billing imposed by the federal government will leave the profession.
Thus, many more physicians will choose other lines of work or will
enter early retirement rather than cope with low profits, huge
administrative demands, and less freedom to exercise independent
professional judgment. This will add to the presently anticipated
physician shortage.

Moreover, prospective medical students will see their bright futures
in medicine dim and will choose other professions free of profit
limits, regulatory oversight, and constrictions on professional
judgment. As the opportunity for profit in the medical profession goes
down and the need to devote far more time to regulatory compliance
increases, many bright young people will go where income potential is
greater and regulation less.



The health care law thus creates the makings of a perfect storm.
Demand for medical care will grow enormously. The anticipated shortage
of health care providers will worsen considerably. The dreaded cues of
patients, rationed services and equipment, and replacement of
bureaucratized care for patient-centric care so common in socialist
countries will become common here too. If you thought existing health
care problematic, consider the brave new world of Obamacare. If you
are not sick over it now, you will be, and when you go to see a doctor
for treatment, you may need to take a number, stand in line, come back
another day, or go without.


To be insured by force of law is not to be insured against disease,
insured to receive timely medical care, or insured to receive proper
medical care. The President and Congress have just sacrificed freedom
for government control, and we are about to see in a direct and
personal way the consequences of that evil bargain."

source:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/115b4zEvleths

http://preview.tinyurl.com/115b4zEvleths

On Apr 25, 10:11Â*am, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself"
wrote:
HEALTH REFORM LAW WILL WORSEN DOCTOR SHORTAGE

April 19, 2010

"Among its many harmful effects, the new health reform law will
significantly worsen a doctor shortage in America. Without the bill,
the United States will be short by an estimated 85,000 to 200,000
doctors by 2020. Retiring baby boomer physicians are not being
replaced in sufficient numbers to meet demand anticipated before the
bill’s passage, let alone the enormous increase in demand generated by
the new law. By forcing every American to buy a single product, health
insurance, the new health law will cause more people to seek medical
care than ever before.

Combine the shortage of physicians with the explosion in demand and
you have the makings of a disaster characteristic of countries around
the world where socialized medicine reigns, including the need to get
in a cue for care, rationed services and equipment, and the demise of
patient-centric, quality care in favor of a one-size-fits-all,
bureaucratized care. In short, we will soon experience the horrors of
the further destruction of market forces in the health care sector and
it will means less timely and quality care for everyone.

Many Americans who are not presently insured rely on self-help in most
instances to handle routine colds and flu, sinus infections,
allergies, and other non-life threatening ailments. When the health
care law kicks in, they will be forced into the ranks of the insured
and they will have no financial incentive to avoid visiting the doctor
or hospital. Required to pay for insurance or be covered by a medical
insurance plan, they will have every incentive to take advantage of
the new plans. In large numbers all across the United States, they
will seek medical care for everything from a common cold or virus to
serious conditions. They will place extraordinary demands on the
health care system, clogging offices, engendering administrative
nightmares, and forcing administrators and their federal overseers to
make difficult choices concerning who gets access and to what kinds of
services and who must wait for care. The system is about to be
overwhelmed.

At the same time, fee caps common in Medicare billing will now reach
almost all services. Those caps already force physicians and hospitals
to limit time with patients, cut services, avoid provision of premium
care in favor of unquestionably Medicare covered care, and lose
opportunities for more lucrative patient interactions. As fee caps
become common for all services, physicians and hospitals will
experience a financial squeeze to a degree previously unknown. As
insurance companies, serving as proxies for the federal government,
exert even more pressure on physicians by second-guessing their
professional judgment and overruling their recommendations for patient
care, case by case the practice of medicine will become even more
bureaucratized. In addition, far greater record keeping and
administrative burdens will further enmesh providers in red tape.

The economics of providing medical care will worsen for those who
provide it, reducing their enthusiasm for working in the profession
and enhancing the value of alternative occupations. Many already fed
up with the amount of regulation and the degree of limitation on
billing imposed by the federal government will leave the profession.
Thus, many more physicians will choose other lines of work or will
enter early retirement rather than cope with low profits, huge
administrative demands, and less freedom to exercise independent
professional judgment. This will add to the presently anticipated
physician shortage.

Moreover, prospective medical students will see their bright futures
in medicine dim and will choose other professions free of profit
limits, regulatory oversight, and constrictions on professional
judgment. As the opportunity for profit in the medical profession goes
down and the need to devote far more time to regulatory compliance
increases, many bright young people will go where income potential is
greater and regulation less.

The health care law thus creates the makings of a perfect storm.
Demand for medical care will grow enormously. The anticipated shortage
of health care providers will worsen considerably. The dreaded cues of
patients, rationed services and equipment, and replacement of
bureaucratized care for patient-centric care so common in socialist
countries will become common here too. If you thought existing health
care problematic, consider the brave new world of Obamacare. If you
are not sick over it now, you will be, and when you go to see a doctor
for treatment, you may need to take a number, stand in line, come back
another day, or go without.

To be insured by force of law is not to be insured against disease,
insured to receive timely medical care, or insured to receive proper
medical care. The President and Congress have just sacrificed freedom
for government control, and we are about to see in a direct and
personal way the consequences of that evil bargain."

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On Apr 25, 9:11*am, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself"
wrote:
HEALTH REFORM LAW WILL WORSEN DOCTOR SHORTAGE

April 19, 2010

"Among its many harmful effects, the new health reform law will
significantly worsen a doctor shortage in America. Without the bill,
the United States will be short by an estimated 85,000 to 200,000
doctors by 2020. Retiring baby boomer physicians are not being
replaced in sufficient numbers to meet demand anticipated before the
bill’s passage, let alone the enormous increase in demand generated by
the new law. By forcing every American to buy a single product, health
insurance, the new health law will cause more people to seek medical
care than ever before.

Combine the shortage of physicians with the explosion in demand and
you have the makings of a disaster characteristic of countries around
the world where socialized medicine reigns, including the need to get
in a cue for care, rationed services and equipment, and the demise of
patient-centric, quality care in favor of a one-size-fits-all,
bureaucratized care. In short, we will soon experience the horrors of
the further destruction of market forces in the health care sector and
it will means less timely and quality care for everyone.

Many Americans who are not presently insured rely on self-help in most
instances to handle routine colds and flu, sinus infections,
allergies, and other non-life threatening ailments. When the health
care law kicks in, they will be forced into the ranks of the insured
and they will have no financial incentive to avoid visiting the doctor
or hospital. Required to pay for insurance or be covered by a medical
insurance plan, they will have every incentive to take advantage of
the new plans. In large numbers all across the United States, they
will seek medical care for everything from a common cold or virus to
serious conditions. They will place extraordinary demands on the
health care system, clogging offices, engendering administrative
nightmares, and forcing administrators and their federal overseers to
make difficult choices concerning who gets access and to what kinds of
services and who must wait for care. The system is about to be
overwhelmed.

At the same time, fee caps common in Medicare billing will now reach
almost all services. Those caps already force physicians and hospitals
to limit time with patients, cut services, avoid provision of premium
care in favor of unquestionably Medicare covered care, and lose
opportunities for more lucrative patient interactions. As fee caps
become common for all services, physicians and hospitals will
experience a financial squeeze to a degree previously unknown. As
insurance companies, serving as proxies for the federal government,
exert even more pressure on physicians by second-guessing their
professional judgment and overruling their recommendations for patient
care, case by case the practice of medicine will become even more
bureaucratized. In addition, far greater record keeping and
administrative burdens will further enmesh providers in red tape.

The economics of providing medical care will worsen for those who
provide it, reducing their enthusiasm for working in the profession
and enhancing the value of alternative occupations. Many already fed
up with the amount of regulation and the degree of limitation on
billing imposed by the federal government will leave the profession.
Thus, many more physicians will choose other lines of work or will
enter early retirement rather than cope with low profits, huge
administrative demands, and less freedom to exercise independent
professional judgment. This will add to the presently anticipated
physician shortage.

Moreover, prospective medical students will see their bright futures
in medicine dim and will choose other professions free of profit
limits, regulatory oversight, and constrictions on professional
judgment. As the opportunity for profit in the medical profession goes
down and the need to devote far more time to regulatory compliance
increases, many bright young people will go where income potential is
greater and regulation less.

The health care law thus creates the makings of a perfect storm.
Demand for medical care will grow enormously. The anticipated shortage
of health care providers will worsen considerably. The dreaded cues of
patients, rationed services and equipment, and replacement of
bureaucratized care for patient-centric care so common in socialist
countries will become common here too. If you thought existing health
care problematic, consider the brave new world of Obamacare. If you
are not sick over it now, you will be, and when you go to see a doctor
for treatment, you may need to take a number, stand in line, come back
another day, or go without.

To be insured by force of law is not to be insured against disease,
insured to receive timely medical care, or insured to receive proper
medical care. The President and Congress have just sacrificed freedom
for government control, and we are about to see in a direct and
personal way the consequences of that evil bargain."

source:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/115b4zEvleths

http://preview.tinyurl.com/115b4zEvleths

It will cause a greater demand for doctors. It will get rid of the
monopoly on the number of doctors that can be trained. It will widen
the use of nurse practioners and midwives. It will require less
training for General Practioners. This Health Care bill was created
to promote CHANGE and NOT give an immediate answer to our screwed up
present health care system. It maybe 4 or 5 years before the system
can correct decades of stagnation.

GLOBALIST wrote:
On Apr 25, 9:11 am, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself"
wrote:
HEALTH REFORM LAW WILL WORSEN DOCTOR SHORTAGE

April 19, 2010

"Among its many harmful effects, the new health reform law will
significantly worsen a doctor shortage in America. Without the bill,
the United States will be short by an estimated 85,000 to 200,000
doctors by 2020. Retiring baby boomer physicians are not being
replaced in sufficient numbers to meet demand anticipated before the
bill’s passage, let alone the enormous increase in demand generated by
the new law. By forcing every American to buy a single product, health
insurance, the new health law will cause more people to seek medical
care than ever before.

Combine the shortage of physicians with the explosion in demand and
you have the makings of a disaster characteristic of countries around
the world where socialized medicine reigns, including the need to get
in a cue for care, rationed services and equipment, and the demise of
patient-centric, quality care in favor of a one-size-fits-all,
bureaucratized care. In short, we will soon experience the horrors of
the further destruction of market forces in the health care sector and
it will means less timely and quality care for everyone.

Many Americans who are not presently insured rely on self-help in most
instances to handle routine colds and flu, sinus infections,
allergies, and other non-life threatening ailments. When the health
care law kicks in, they will be forced into the ranks of the insured
and they will have no financial incentive to avoid visiting the doctor
or hospital. Required to pay for insurance or be covered by a medical
insurance plan, they will have every incentive to take advantage of
the new plans. In large numbers all across the United States, they
will seek medical care for everything from a common cold or virus to
serious conditions. They will place extraordinary demands on the
health care system, clogging offices, engendering administrative
nightmares, and forcing administrators and their federal overseers to
make difficult choices concerning who gets access and to what kinds of
services and who must wait for care. The system is about to be
overwhelmed.

At the same time, fee caps common in Medicare billing will now reach
almost all services. Those caps already force physicians and hospitals
to limit time with patients, cut services, avoid provision of premium
care in favor of unquestionably Medicare covered care, and lose
opportunities for more lucrative patient interactions. As fee caps
become common for all services, physicians and hospitals will
experience a financial squeeze to a degree previously unknown. As
insurance companies, serving as proxies for the federal government,
exert even more pressure on physicians by second-guessing their
professional judgment and overruling their recommendations for patient
care, case by case the practice of medicine will become even more
bureaucratized. In addition, far greater record keeping and
administrative burdens will further enmesh providers in red tape.

The economics of providing medical care will worsen for those who
provide it, reducing their enthusiasm for working in the profession
and enhancing the value of alternative occupations. Many already fed
up with the amount of regulation and the degree of limitation on
billing imposed by the federal government will leave the profession.
Thus, many more physicians will choose other lines of work or will
enter early retirement rather than cope with low profits, huge
administrative demands, and less freedom to exercise independent
professional judgment. This will add to the presently anticipated
physician shortage.

Moreover, prospective medical students will see their bright futures
in medicine dim and will choose other professions free of profit
limits, regulatory oversight, and constrictions on professional
judgment. As the opportunity for profit in the medical profession goes
down and the need to devote far more time to regulatory compliance
increases, many bright young people will go where income potential is
greater and regulation less.

The health care law thus creates the makings of a perfect storm.
Demand for medical care will grow enormously. The anticipated shortage
of health care providers will worsen considerably. The dreaded cues of
patients, rationed services and equipment, and replacement of
bureaucratized care for patient-centric care so common in socialist
countries will become common here too. If you thought existing health
care problematic, consider the brave new world of Obamacare. If you
are not sick over it now, you will be, and when you go to see a doctor
for treatment, you may need to take a number, stand in line, come back
another day, or go without.

To be insured by force of law is not to be insured against disease,
insured to receive timely medical care, or insured to receive proper
medical care. The President and Congress have just sacrificed freedom
for government control, and we are about to see in a direct and
personal way the consequences of that evil bargain."

source:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/115b4zEvleths

http://preview.tinyurl.com/115b4zEvleths

It will cause a greater demand for doctors. It will get rid of the
monopoly on the number of doctors that can be trained. It will widen
the use of nurse practioners and midwives. It will require less
training for General Practioners. This Health Care bill was created
to promote CHANGE and NOT give an immediate answer to our screwed up
present health care system. It maybe 4 or 5 years before the system
can correct decades of stagnation.

You've left out one big reason for which will distort costs. In 1948
when Britain's health service came into being there was a huge and
largely uncalculated number of users who had illnesses that had been
untreated for many years even decades previously. July, 1948 was the
first time such ill health could be treated. We were really quite a
sick country. This 'bulge' raised the cost of NHS in its early years.

"O'Donovan, PJ, Himself" wrote in message
...
HEALTH REFORM LAW WILL WORSEN DOCTOR SHORTAGE


Why are you posting this to a UK politics group?
Our opinions on our own political issues of the day are largely irrelevant
as it is, but surely our opinions on US political issues are without any
value whatsoever

Hotblack Desiato wrote:


"O'Donovan, PJ, Himself" wrote in message
...
HEALTH REFORM LAW WILL WORSEN DOCTOR SHORTAGE


Why are you posting this to a UK politics group?
Our opinions on our own political issues of the day are largely
irrelevant as it is, but surely our opinions on US political issues are
without any value whatsoever

I deplore our resident lunatic crossposting to yourselves
but I beg to differ with your statement. Do we have a doctor
shortage because of the NHS? No we don't - isn't that fact
of some interest to Americans?

On 4/25/2010 9:46 AM, Hotblack Desiato wrote:


"O'Donovan, PJ, Himself" wrote in message
...
HEALTH REFORM LAW WILL WORSEN DOCTOR SHORTAGE


Why are you posting this to a UK politics group?
Our opinions on our own political issues of the day are largely
irrelevant as it is, but surely our opinions on US political issues
are without any value whatsoever
He's just a piece of excrement who can't help himself from inappropriate
cross posting.

"O'Donovan, PJ, Himself" wrote in message
...
HEALTH REFORM LAW WILL WORSEN DOCTOR SHORTAGE

Wealth of male idiocy here, so how will things be worse for the untreated
Americans? Oh they might be treated, even belatedly , and cause the wealthy
insurance payers some delays? Which might draw them into the camp of more
serious consideration of increasing doctors numbers.

Oh yes we should worry about that?
L
http://www.lucjasgateway.com.au/mday1.html





April 19, 2010

"Among its many harmful effects, the new health reform law will
significantly worsen a doctor shortage in America. Without the bill,
the United States will be short by an estimated 85,000 to 200,000
doctors by 2020. Retiring baby boomer physicians are not being
replaced in sufficient numbers to meet demand anticipated before the
bill’s passage, let alone the enormous increase in demand generated by
the new law. By forcing every American to buy a single product, health
insurance, the new health law will cause more people to seek medical
care than ever before.

Combine the shortage of physicians with the explosion in demand and
you have the makings of a disaster characteristic of countries around
the world where socialized medicine reigns, including the need to get
in a cue for care, rationed services and equipment, and the demise of
patient-centric, quality care in favor of a one-size-fits-all,
bureaucratized care. In short, we will soon experience the horrors of
the further destruction of market forces in the health care sector and
it will means less timely and quality care for everyone.

Many Americans who are not presently insured rely on self-help in most
instances to handle routine colds and flu, sinus infections,
allergies, and other non-life threatening ailments. When the health
care law kicks in, they will be forced into the ranks of the insured
and they will have no financial incentive to avoid visiting the doctor
or hospital. Required to pay for insurance or be covered by a medical
insurance plan, they will have every incentive to take advantage of
the new plans. In large numbers all across the United States, they
will seek medical care for everything from a common cold or virus to
serious conditions. They will place extraordinary demands on the
health care system, clogging offices, engendering administrative
nightmares, and forcing administrators and their federal overseers to
make difficult choices concerning who gets access and to what kinds of
services and who must wait for care. The system is about to be
overwhelmed.


At the same time, fee caps common in Medicare billing will now reach
almost all services. Those caps already force physicians and hospitals
to limit time with patients, cut services, avoid provision of premium
care in favor of unquestionably Medicare covered care, and lose
opportunities for more lucrative patient interactions. As fee caps
become common for all services, physicians and hospitals will
experience a financial squeeze to a degree previously unknown. As
insurance companies, serving as proxies for the federal government,
exert even more pressure on physicians by second-guessing their
professional judgment and overruling their recommendations for patient
care, case by case the practice of medicine will become even more
bureaucratized. In addition, far greater record keeping and
administrative burdens will further enmesh providers in red tape.

The economics of providing medical care will worsen for those who
provide it, reducing their enthusiasm for working in the profession
and enhancing the value of alternative occupations. Many already fed
up with the amount of regulation and the degree of limitation on
billing imposed by the federal government will leave the profession.
Thus, many more physicians will choose other lines of work or will
enter early retirement rather than cope with low profits, huge
administrative demands, and less freedom to exercise independent
professional judgment. This will add to the presently anticipated
physician shortage.

Moreover, prospective medical students will see their bright futures
in medicine dim and will choose other professions free of profit
limits, regulatory oversight, and constrictions on professional
judgment. As the opportunity for profit in the medical profession goes
down and the need to devote far more time to regulatory compliance
increases, many bright young people will go where income potential is
greater and regulation less.



The health care law thus creates the makings of a perfect storm.
Demand for medical care will grow enormously. The anticipated shortage
of health care providers will worsen considerably. The dreaded cues of
patients, rationed services and equipment, and replacement of
bureaucratized care for patient-centric care so common in socialist
countries will become common here too. If you thought existing health
care problematic, consider the brave new world of Obamacare. If you
are not sick over it now, you will be, and when you go to see a doctor
for treatment, you may need to take a number, stand in line, come back
another day, or go without.


To be insured by force of law is not to be insured against disease,
insured to receive timely medical care, or insured to receive proper
medical care. The President and Congress have just sacrificed freedom
for government control, and we are about to see in a direct and
personal way the consequences of that evil bargain."

source:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/115b4zEvleths

http://preview.tinyurl.com/115b4zEvleths

"John Rennie" a écrit dans le message de groupe
de discussion : ...
GLOBALIST wrote:
On Apr 25, 9:11 am, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself"
wrote:
HEALTH REFORM LAW WILL WORSEN DOCTOR SHORTAGE

April 19, 2010

"Among its many harmful effects, the new health reform law will
significantly worsen a doctor shortage in America. Without the bill,
the United States will be short by an estimated 85,000 to 200,000
doctors by 2020. Retiring baby boomer physicians are not being
replaced in sufficient numbers to meet demand anticipated before the
bill’s passage, let alone the enormous increase in demand generated by
the new law. By forcing every American to buy a single product, health
insurance, the new health law will cause more people to seek medical
care than ever before.

Combine the shortage of physicians with the explosion in demand and
you have the makings of a disaster characteristic of countries around
the world where socialized medicine reigns, including the need to get
in a cue for care, rationed services and equipment, and the demise of
patient-centric, quality care in favor of a one-size-fits-all,
bureaucratized care. In short, we will soon experience the horrors of
the further destruction of market forces in the health care sector and
it will means less timely and quality care for everyone.

Many Americans who are not presently insured rely on self-help in most
instances to handle routine colds and flu, sinus infections,
allergies, and other non-life threatening ailments. When the health
care law kicks in, they will be forced into the ranks of the insured
and they will have no financial incentive to avoid visiting the doctor
or hospital. Required to pay for insurance or be covered by a medical
insurance plan, they will have every incentive to take advantage of
the new plans. In large numbers all across the United States, they
will seek medical care for everything from a common cold or virus to
serious conditions. They will place extraordinary demands on the
health care system, clogging offices, engendering administrative
nightmares, and forcing administrators and their federal overseers to
make difficult choices concerning who gets access and to what kinds of
services and who must wait for care. The system is about to be
overwhelmed.

At the same time, fee caps common in Medicare billing will now reach
almost all services. Those caps already force physicians and hospitals
to limit time with patients, cut services, avoid provision of premium
care in favor of unquestionably Medicare covered care, and lose
opportunities for more lucrative patient interactions. As fee caps
become common for all services, physicians and hospitals will
experience a financial squeeze to a degree previously unknown. As
insurance companies, serving as proxies for the federal government,
exert even more pressure on physicians by second-guessing their
professional judgment and overruling their recommendations for patient
care, case by case the practice of medicine will become even more
bureaucratized. In addition, far greater record keeping and
administrative burdens will further enmesh providers in red tape.

The economics of providing medical care will worsen for those who
provide it, reducing their enthusiasm for working in the profession
and enhancing the value of alternative occupations. Many already fed
up with the amount of regulation and the degree of limitation on
billing imposed by the federal government will leave the profession.
Thus, many more physicians will choose other lines of work or will
enter early retirement rather than cope with low profits, huge
administrative demands, and less freedom to exercise independent
professional judgment. This will add to the presently anticipated
physician shortage.

Moreover, prospective medical students will see their bright futures
in medicine dim and will choose other professions free of profit
limits, regulatory oversight, and constrictions on professional
judgment. As the opportunity for profit in the medical profession goes
down and the need to devote far more time to regulatory compliance
increases, many bright young people will go where income potential is
greater and regulation less.

The health care law thus creates the makings of a perfect storm.
Demand for medical care will grow enormously. The anticipated shortage
of health care providers will worsen considerably. The dreaded cues of
patients, rationed services and equipment, and replacement of
bureaucratized care for patient-centric care so common in socialist
countries will become common here too. If you thought existing health
care problematic, consider the brave new world of Obamacare. If you
are not sick over it now, you will be, and when you go to see a doctor
for treatment, you may need to take a number, stand in line, come back
another day, or go without.

To be insured by force of law is not to be insured against disease,
insured to receive timely medical care, or insured to receive proper
medical care. The President and Congress have just sacrificed freedom
for government control, and we are about to see in a direct and
personal way the consequences of that evil bargain."

source:

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http://preview.tinyurl.com/115b4zEvleths

It will cause a greater demand for doctors. It will get rid of the
monopoly on the number of doctors that can be trained. It will widen
the use of nurse practioners and midwives. It will require less
training for General Practioners. This Health Care bill was created
to promote CHANGE and NOT give an immediate answer to our screwed up
present health care system. It maybe 4 or 5 years before the system
can correct decades of stagnation.

You've left out one big reason for which will distort costs. In 1948 when
Britain's health service came into being there was a huge and largely
uncalculated number of users who had illnesses that had been untreated for
many years even decades previously. July, 1948 was the first time such
ill health could be treated. We were really quite a sick country. This
'bulge' raised the cost of NHS in its early years.