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Originally Posted by stan the man
Make more doctors ..You can't tell me that in a country the size of the United States we don't have millions of people that are qualified to be doctors today. Why is it we have to go to other countries to import doctors to come and work here at big salaries. If I go to India I'm quite sure if i go to a doctor he will not have america accent. Or came from the USA to practice in India. Stop with the baloney the AMA Controls the amount of doctors being produced in the United States and keeps it low so it is really no competition. So as all the experts claim that competition always lowers the price of everything let's make more hospitals produce more doctors. I'm really not quite sure that would work either as I look and see how many lawyers are produced in this country and still they charge a high price. Least the doctor has to go to school for many years to get his doctorates to bring and become an M.D. where real estate salespeople get 6% to do nothing.
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Make the hospitals produce more doctors? How do you propose they do that, march the police into homes and drag them to medical school? LOL. I have talked to many doctors about the shortage and they all are in agreement is that it takes a special person today to enter medicine to be a primary care physician. The money and reduced hours are in the specialty areas and that's where medical students focus today. The more medicare provides payment the less attractive primary care becomes. The older the population becomes the more specialized medicine is needed and they don't need to accept government money to do well. There isn't a simple answer. Also have had neighbors return recently from Europe and they talked to a lot of folks about health care. They heard what the previous poster heard, very expensive tax contribution needed but lots of shortcomings, especially as you get older. Don't have first hand knowledge on that.