All the more reason to go to nurse practitioner school.

Not to worry. Under Obama´s new immigration policies, we´ll soon have plenty of doctors from Bangladesh, Malawi and Cuba

The Feds control exactly how many doctors go through required residency programs mainly via Medicare funding. They control the income of doctors via Medicaid reimbursement rates. The reason there are not enough primary care doctors is because of the Government - end of story.

Don´t worry - Obama with just nationalize doctors through a draft-like law,and the government will order them to be general practitioners. As long as we get free birth control - who cares.

In 10 years - your primary care physician will be made of silcon.

You will put a drop of blood, pee and spit onto a strip that will plug into your IPAD and it will run a full diagnostic panel - and tell you what the problem is.

The article spins a few facts into a diatribe against freedom of choice, as though physicians were public property that should be used wherever someone else decides they should be used. Meanwhile the not-just-useless-but-destructive big bankers loot millions in bonuses and billions/trillions in "government" transfer payments (from the rest of us) while contributing nothing to their fellow man except a ruined economy.

A new GP will be lucky to make $125k a year. Doesn´t begin to pay for $500k in tuition costs for college & medical school, let alone 4 extra years of your life spent in school.

Old News!

4 years in medical school PLUS the years in residency. For Primary Care/Internal Medicine residency is 3 years minimum, so the very least after college is 7 years before making any money. To branch out from Internal Med to cardiology, endocronolgy, etc. is years more of residency. My son is an Internist and they are not making a fortune. You have to really want to be a Primary Care physician and be dedicated to do it, believe me.

Proving it´s all about da money!

#5, you must be a star trek fan.
Remember ´bones´ mccoy, who had that magic device for diagnosis??

Has anyone reasoned why most of the government doctors in England are muslims?

Third world trained doctors for a third world electorate. Coming here soon.

Good times.

Maybe they figured out that they aren’t reimbursed for the fifteen minutes it takes to explain to patients that the “free physical” Obamacare promised isn’t really free, and isn’t really a physical.

I have asked several Liberals that if we add some 30 million new people to Obamacare and we don´t add any new doctors, who is going to take care of these people? None of them had an intelligent answer.

I then asked, since they will cut medicare payments to doctors and the doctors retire or go to another business what will you do then? The answer to that one is that Doctors can´t afford to waste all that training and won´t quit.

Now one sees why I laugh when they try to tell me Liberals are intelligent.

This will all get fixed when the govt starts setting salaries for medical personel to control costs. they will all make the same amount. If teh drs decided to works less, the govt will mandate that they work in free clinics in order to keep their license. Problem solved.

A gastro doctor told me last week, that his daughter decided that she didn´t want to come into his business, but rather became a vet. He also said that in the future it will be physician assistants that will be doing the primary care for most of us.

My local hospitals & specialists just dropped UHC.UHC is partnered w/ ObamaCare so you can see whats coming.... they´ve lowered reimbursements & require tremendous documentation.

I haven´t seen my doc for 18 months. You see nurse practitioners & the doc becomes a paper pusher.

Almost forgot! After my rheumatologist dropped UHC, I went on UHC´s website to find an approved doc.... They were all in Puerto Rico!