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Originally posted by: BobOrme
I'm wondering just who the universal health care Utopians think is going to provide health care when/if all of Obama's plan goes into affect. My family doctor of more than 20 years took an early retirement in 2008 after the presidential election, citing expected costly measures that were sure to be in place in the near future (and he was right). After scrambling to find a new personal physician, last month I received a letter from him stating that some services would no longer be offered by his practice and while he is still open to accepting new Medicaid/Medicare patients, he doesn't think that will last very long.
Real doctors are running away from this attempt by the government to control them and their business practices by forcing a price structures down their collective throats that won't cover their actual costs. Universal health care won't increase the availability of quality treatment to a larger group of people. What it will do (and has already done) is force qualified health care providers out of their chosen professions. If allowed to continue, it will result in a significant decline in people willing to go to school for a dozen years to become doctors. Who would be willing to accumulate a quarter million (or more) dollars of debt in school loans to be a tool of a government-run system? Compassion is one thing. Economic reality is another.
Perhaps Money's bill is in anticipation of that doctor wanting to take an early retirement too. ...or it could be the cost of living in California.
When I start to see Medical schools closing because there aren't enough students to fill them, I'll concede your point. In the meantime, the 2010/2011 First Year class of US Medical Schools is some 13% larger than a decade ago.
