The Problem of Doctor Shortages

                     

Amid the talk about ObamaCare is the fact we already have a shortage of doctors, particularly in primary care. This gets worse every year. Moreover, shortages occur most rapidly where the government keeps restricting MD income and adds to workloads.

                     

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 from 36 to 50 days. Yet, the state happens to have more  doctors than others.

                                        

Furthermore, the shortage is expected to get worse throughout 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.

                     

Universal health care planning loses 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.)