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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (13981)	3/5/2010 10:26:43 AM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I believe doctors are retiring in response to demographics. They are reaching retirement age, or the age at which they earlier wanted to retire. Some of them are retiring in response to current and past Medicare practices. Some are retiring in response to the risk of future problems with government reimbursement. Agree. There is one more story which usually goes unnoticed - The Old Doctor. We all remember those Old Doctors, the fellows who slow down as they get older, but continue seeing patients into their 70's or even 80's. They are out of the game. These days a doc must work full blast in order to simply keeps the office doors open. No more such thing as a part time practice. Things are too expensive and too complex, and fees are tight. Result - an additional shortage which will develop within the next few years - and which, to my knowledge, no one really expects.