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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (9456)	9/14/2009 9:19:12 AM
From: skinowski	4 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42652

if medical care practitioners were nationalized. This probably can be googled and researched, but based on my (anecdotal) observations it seems that a very large majority of young docs upon completion of their postgraduate training programs no longer become independent practitioners - they become employees. They get hired by large groups, by HMO's, by hospitals, etc. Bottom line -- young docs as a group, especially primary care, no longer think about their professional future in terms of being independent. To many, a government takeover may mean little more than having to answer to a different boss. Don't overestimate doctors. They've been taking crap from the government for decades.