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

To: Brumar89 who wrote (21921)	7/14/2012 9:26:31 PM
From: greatplains_guy	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42652

83% of doctors say they might quit over Obamacare, according to new poll Obamacare July 11, 2012 By: Howard Portnoy According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the median debt at graduation from medical school is $150,000 at public institutions and $180,000 at private institutions. Add to that malpractice insurance premiums that can as high as $200,000 a year, and you begin to get a sense of why American physicians might be wary of government intrusion into the practice of medicine. One new survey shows the disenchantment running so high that 83% of doctors queried say they are thinking of hanging up their stethoscopes permanently now that Obamacare stands poised to remain the law of the land. (A short time ago, the House of Representatives voted 244 to 185 to repeal in full the president’s signature legislative achievement in a purely symbolic display of opposition.) The survey, conducted by the Doctor Patient Medical Association Foundation, also found that 90% of doctors believe the U.S. medical system is headed down the wrong track. This is not the first poll to be taken since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. In January 2011 Thomson Reuters survey, 65% of doctors said they expected the quality of healthcare to decline under the new law, but this is the first time as large a percentage of health professionals said they’d rather suspend their careers than fight the system. The decision is almost certainly driven in part by Obama’s gratuitous hostility toward the medical profession. In 2009, during lobbying efforts on behalf of the law, the president accused surgeons of amputating limbs because it generates higher fees than opting for more conservative treatments (video here). But regardless of how many doctors quit over the ruling, the nation will necessarily face a shortage of physicians beginning in 2020. By 2025, it will balloon to over 130,000, Len Marquez, director of government relations at the American Association of Medical Colleges, told The Daily Caller. “One of our primary concerns,” he said, “is that you’ve got an aging physician workforce and you have these new beneficiaries—these newly insured people—coming through the system. There will be strains and there will be physician shortages.” Kathryn Serkes, founder of the DPMA, is quoted as saying: Doctors clearly understand what Washington does not—that a piece of paper that says you are ‘covered’ by insurance or ‘enrolled’ in Medicare or Medicaid does not translate to actual medical care when doctors can’t afford to see patients at the lowball payments, and patients have to jump through government and insurance company bureaucratic hoops. examiner.com