A Doctor Shortage Solution

                                          

Unsaid with all the talk about ObamaCare is the fact we already have a shortage of doctors, particularly in primary care. This gets worse every year. Moreover, it occurs most rapidly where the government keeps restricting their income and adds to the workload.

                       

While ObamaCare planning has doctors still subject to any alleged tort malfeasance.

                       

Massachusetts, for example, covers 97% of its residents with enforced coverage, but it does not have enough doctors to accommodate the added insured put into the system. The average wait time to see a primary care MD is up to from 36 to over 50 days. Yet, the state happens to have more of these doctors than others.

                                           

Furthermore, the shortage is expected to get worse through out the country, as doctor income is pressured downward, while workloads go up.

                       

Doctors start careers in heavy debt and it is becoming more and more impossible for them to recoup that burden with present political thinking in this country.

                       

Universal health care planning has lost lots of its common sense regarding doctor employment. Without enough competent doctors, the best planning is useless. (See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole at Twitter.)