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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 720419" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><a href="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/ArticlePrint.aspx?id=531277" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 15px">Sign Of Times Under ObamaCare: 'The Doctor Is Out Permanently'</span></a></span> </p><p> Written by CA Political News on April 24, 2010, 01:30 PM </p><p> </p><p>By SALLY C. PIPES, Investors Business Daily, 4/23/10 </p><p>America's primary care system is already under stress. Low reimbursement rates, bureaucratic paperwork and long hours are driving family physicians out of medicine and pushing new doctors into specialized practices. Half a century ago, one in two doctors practiced general medicine. Today, 7 in 10 specialize.</p><p></p><p>And the gap is growing. A mere 1 in 12 medical-school graduates now head to family medicine. In 2009, the American Academy of Family Physicians warned that we'd be short 40,000 family doctors in a decade, if present trends continued. Today, medical schools produce one primary care doctor for every two who are needed.</p><p></p><p>ObamaCare will add strain to an already burdened system. The new bill seeks to increase the load on family doctors while holding the line on costs by putting price controls on government insurance plans. In due course, price controls on private plans will be inevitable.</p><p>The combination of increased coverage and emphasis on primary care, experts say, will increase demand for primary care docs by as much as 29%, or 44,000 doctors, over the next 15 years.</p><p></p><p>But just as demand is increasing, doctors are making plans to exit. A 2009 survey by medical recruiters Merritt Hawkins found that 10% of respondents were planning to leave medicine within three years.</p><p></p><p>Another poll of physicians conducted in 2009 by Investor's Business Daily found that 45% of doctors would consider early retirement if ObamaCare passed.</p><p></p><p>Even more worryingly, the next generation of doctors may be even smaller than the current one. The same IBD study found that two-thirds of practicing physicians believed that fewer students would apply to medical school if Obama's health care plan passed.</p><p></p><p>One clinic in Western Massachusetts has a waiting list of 1,600 patients.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 720419, member: 12952"] [SIZE=4][URL="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/ArticlePrint.aspx?id=531277"][SIZE=4]Sign Of Times Under ObamaCare: 'The Doctor Is Out Permanently'[/SIZE][/URL][/SIZE] Written by CA Political News on April 24, 2010, 01:30 PM By SALLY C. PIPES, Investors Business Daily, 4/23/10 America's primary care system is already under stress. Low reimbursement rates, bureaucratic paperwork and long hours are driving family physicians out of medicine and pushing new doctors into specialized practices. Half a century ago, one in two doctors practiced general medicine. Today, 7 in 10 specialize. And the gap is growing. A mere 1 in 12 medical-school graduates now head to family medicine. In 2009, the American Academy of Family Physicians warned that we'd be short 40,000 family doctors in a decade, if present trends continued. Today, medical schools produce one primary care doctor for every two who are needed. ObamaCare will add strain to an already burdened system. The new bill seeks to increase the load on family doctors while holding the line on costs by putting price controls on government insurance plans. In due course, price controls on private plans will be inevitable. The combination of increased coverage and emphasis on primary care, experts say, will increase demand for primary care docs by as much as 29%, or 44,000 doctors, over the next 15 years. But just as demand is increasing, doctors are making plans to exit. A 2009 survey by medical recruiters Merritt Hawkins found that 10% of respondents were planning to leave medicine within three years. Another poll of physicians conducted in 2009 by Investor's Business Daily found that 45% of doctors would consider early retirement if ObamaCare passed. Even more worryingly, the next generation of doctors may be even smaller than the current one. The same IBD study found that two-thirds of practicing physicians believed that fewer students would apply to medical school if Obama's health care plan passed. One clinic in Western Massachusetts has a waiting list of 1,600 patients. [/QUOTE]
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