What is the problem I admitted Canada had a doctor shortage, heck we even have a nursing (RN) shortage. RN in Alberta working 32 hr a week can earn over $60 000. Ones willing to work overtime can make $80 000 and still only work 40 hrs per week
I am saying it is not like the nurses or doctors are generally underpaid, or poorly compensated in other areas
Overall I just dont see more then 5% of US doctors quiting or moving because of this. They just dont have anywhere to go where they will make the same amount of money. No other country will pay them the same (plus they will have to learn a foreign langauge), and there are not that many positions in the US that doctors can do, that would allow for more then at most 5% to quit being doctors
thank you
a 5% reduction in the number of doctors while at the same time expanding by 31 million the number of folks covered by insurance would be devastating to those of us who currently have plans we like
and the 5% figure is really just off the top of your head, which is fine, you're not passing it off as anything other
the point is---a 22% reduction in doctors pay, or the forcing of them to treat large numbers of medicaid patients they don't really want to make their careers about, whether the right thing to do or wrong, would surely be a significant downward pressure on the number of folks willing to stay in the biz or eager to begin the gig in the first place
i think you underestimate the number of caregivers who, simply out of disgust, quit the affair entirely, either to enter earlier or partial retirement, either to change careers, get into teaching, become a cpa, there are hundreds of possibilities
i personally don't believe 50% will leave but i do feel the disincentives in this bill against people becoming doctors or remaining in the field are significant
just like canada, where the doc shortage has been, apparently, a huge problem for a long, long time
as for languages---my sainted mother very recently had a tia, or mini stroke
she's doing great! today
but in doing a search for geriatric specialists out here in california where i want to move her so i can take care of her i discovered that of the 8 geriatric specialists at john muir (which is less than 5 minutes from my home), 4 spoke foreign tongues----pharsee, vietnamese, tagalog and hindi
at kaiser, my provider, gosh, just about every doc i've seen has been foreign born, which is exciting
my mother loves indian doctors, she feels they are very "intuitive"
you know how moms are, once they get an idea in their heads
thanks for your civility and class, lord
and give my best, sincerely, to your mother
mothers are precious, the pompous prof's topmost priority