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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
I agree with other posters here—the healthcare problem in the U.S. is getting worse. It can’t improve until we begin training enough new doctors to replace those leaving the profession. Last year 114,000 doctors retired or left practice for other reasons. But U.S. medical schools only graduated something like 76,000 new doctors. The shortfall will have to be made up by doctors trained in foreign medical schools who choose to emigrate to the U.S..
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Not the problem. The payer is the issue. Most hospitals are non profit, have requirements to take medicare, and also non insured individuals. The government makes up the difference based upon incentives and performance.
However, the health insurance companies are the payers, and they are profit oriented and in a competitive market. So they are incentivized to have competitive rates, increased bonuses, increases shareholder profits, and so they squeeze the hospital payer rates.
There is a wonderful article on UHC's decision to cut off healthcare insurance to ONE individual because the cost of keeping the college student alive was $2M per year for drugs. . . All the doctors' were providing the best care in the country. . UHC was seeing segment profits falling below budget targets. . . so their doctor's evaluation starting disagreeing with the hospital specialist docs for care requirements, and now there are lawsuits . . .
So its not about the number of doctors or the quality of the doctors, but about the payer, medicare or private insurance. . . and the insurance companies with profit over healthcare, are slowing eroding the healthcare quality as the hospitals and doctors are slowly losing their incomes to be able to do what they do beyond annual exam, accidental repairs, and general population issues, such as diabetes, and viral sicknesses. . ie, specialty care will be the first to lose its payer funding as very expensive versus routine care. .
good luck and stay healthy, maybe forgo that arby's beef and cheddar with bacon along with pickle ball without a helmet
doctor guy