To: Bilow who wrote (749564 ) 10/26/2013 10:37:56 AM From: SilentZ Respond to You really wanna go there, huh?nytimes.com Daniel Reed, a Republican representative from New York, predicted that with Social Security, Americans would come to feel “the lash of the dictator.” Senator Daniel Hastings, a Delaware Republican , declared that Social Security would “end the progress of a great country.” John Taber, a Republican representative from New York, went further and said of Social Security: “Never in the history of the world has any measure been brought here so insidiously designed as to prevent business recovery, to enslave workers.” Business groups warn that Washington bureaucrats will invade “the privacy of the examination room,” [LIKE THE CREEPY UNCLE SAM] that we are on the road to rationed care and that patients will lose the “freedom to choose their own doctor.” washingtonpost.com Just as thousands of Americans are enrolling in new health insurance plans under Obamacare, new statistics show that a record number of students applied to and enrolled this fall in medical schools across the country. Amid a shortage of physicians, statistics released Thursday by the Association of American Medical Colleges show that the number of medical school applicants for this year grew by 6.1 percent — to 48,014 — from the previous year. That exceeds the record set in 1996 by 1,049 students. Furthermore, a release by the association says, first-time applicants — one key indicator of interest in medicine — increased by 5.5 percent t to 35,727. There was also a 3 percent increase from 2012 in the number of students who enrolled in their first year of medical school. That number, 20,044, exceeded 20,000 for the first time.
