Unsaid with all the hullabaloo about government health insurance is the fact we have a shortage of doctors, particularly primary care doctors. This is getting worse every year, What is more, this occurs most rapidly where the government restricts their income and adds to their workload.
While the administration's health insurance planning sees to it that doctors will still be subject to any alleged tort malfeasance by lawyers.
The state of Massachusetts covers 97% of its residents with enforced coverage, but it just does not have enough doctors to accommodate the added insured that had been put into the system. The average wait time to see a primary care MD is up to a range of from 36 to 50 days. Yet, the state happens to have more of these doctors than others.
Furthermore, this shortage is expected to get worse through out the country, as doctor income is pressured downward, at the same time workloads go up. Doctors start their careers in heavy debt and it is becoming more and more impossible for them to recoup that outlay with present political thinking in this country.
Universal health care planning loses lots of its common sense when it comes to doctor understanding. Without enough competent doctors, the best planning will be useless.
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