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

To: greatplains_guy who wrote (24157)	7/15/2012 10:12:56 AM
From: Lane3	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Who believes the new entitlement will grant greater access to healthcare with 17% of doctors remaining in practice? Nobody is going to believe that 83% of doctors will quit. That's just silly. I could believe that 83% of doctors have considered their fate and given a thought of two to quitting. A few percent of them might actually go into research or some such. I expect that the effect will be more on those considering the profession than on those already in it. The doctors 20 years from now might not be the same caliber as those today. But there will always be doctors, even if the talent pool is those who now become plumbers. Any group that sees dark clouds ahead will talk about quitting, at least until they calm down and get realistic. Doing it is something else again.