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<blockquote data-quote="dmac1" data-source="post: 4654230" data-attributes="member: 60252">This post is a little old, but I don&#039;t live here like some with nothing better to do. But this is just another example of the level of stupidity some post, willingly proving that they just shouldn&#039;t be public;y posting to protect any idea that they may be at least of average IQ.This post says the population is growing at a pace faster than the rate the number of doctors is growing. It completely ignores the advances in technology that allow fewer doctors to trat more people, and ignores even the basic rule of supply and demand that their precious free market is said to promote. More demand for doctors if it happens will lead to more people wanting to be doctors with more medical schools taking more students. And then you have more PAs, and nurses taking over a lot of what doctors do, in addition to the tech that allows doctors to focus more of their skills only when needed. It doesn&#039;t take a doctor anymore to stitch up a minor cut, and the nurses and PAs screen patients to save time. Just saying that the number of doctors is not growing as fast as the population is ignorant. (again) from people the same people who fear &#039;socialized&#039; medicine and make claims without proof that it doesn&#039;t work- even though it works elsewhere across the globe- or that giving access to healthcare to all will make it worse for a few because &#039;free&#039; care is impossible, when no one ever said it was free. Medicare is socialized medicine, as is the VA, as is Medicaid, and medicare is only in financial trouble because the taxes are not paid equally by all on all income. The self employed pay both the employer and employee portion, but a large part of investment incom is not taxed, and benefits to employees worth potentially tens of thousands of dollars aren&#039;t taxed as income. The tax code has been specifically written to allow the wealthy to carve out income to avoid paying an equal portion of their income, and employers are using whatever means they can to cut their share.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dmac1, post: 4654230, member: 60252"] This post is a little old, but I don't live here like some with nothing better to do. But this is just another example of the level of stupidity some post, willingly proving that they just shouldn't be public;y posting to protect any idea that they may be at least of average IQ. This post says the population is growing at a pace faster than the rate the number of doctors is growing. It completely ignores the advances in technology that allow fewer doctors to trat more people, and ignores even the basic rule of supply and demand that their precious free market is said to promote. More demand for doctors if it happens will lead to more people wanting to be doctors with more medical schools taking more students. And then you have more PAs, and nurses taking over a lot of what doctors do, in addition to the tech that allows doctors to focus more of their skills only when needed. It doesn't take a doctor anymore to stitch up a minor cut, and the nurses and PAs screen patients to save time. Just saying that the number of doctors is not growing as fast as the population is ignorant. (again) from people the same people who fear 'socialized' medicine and make claims without proof that it doesn't work- even though it works elsewhere across the globe- or that giving access to healthcare to all will make it worse for a few because 'free' care is impossible, when no one ever said it was free. Medicare is socialized medicine, as is the VA, as is Medicaid, and medicare is only in financial trouble because the taxes are not paid equally by all on all income. The self employed pay both the employer and employee portion, but a large part of investment incom is not taxed, and benefits to employees worth potentially tens of thousands of dollars aren't taxed as income. The tax code has been specifically written to allow the wealthy to carve out income to avoid paying an equal portion of their income, and employers are using whatever means they can to cut their share. [/QUOTE]

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