So far, the majority of comments have been by everyone except those whose professions are directly affected - t health care community itself. What is their consensus opinion. By consensus, I don't mean the AMA or AHA, as that's like AARP speaking for all seniors.

HR 3200 ends up with essentially-capped compensation, controlled working environments, and government supervision/reporting at all steps within the process.

Considering the cost of a medical education/training, will HR 3200 affect the medical school input population, since renumeration appears to be eventually less than now. Is that a negative incentive to go into medicine?

The basis of this question is close to me. I have a niece who was undecided about a medical career (research type) or other industy. In the end she decided on chemical engineering, and one of the largest energy companies just agreed to fund her master's degree in full at one of the top schools in the country. She will end up with her doctorate, and a well-compensated career, all debt-free.

She epitomizes the type of person one would want in the health care industry - at any level. Rather than go into a field with, in her mind, a questionable future, she took the golden route.

I know that some will say that health care "is a calling," and that everything else is secondary. Well, that used to be the situation with public education (pre-1960's), and then the field got flooded with people seeking draft deferments - the result being the start (and continued trend) of ever-decreasing SAT scores. The point of this is that when "we, the people" meddle (with the best of intentions) with any profession, there are unanticipated results, and almost always to the negative.

This is one of those "nasty details" that may or may not have been thought out, and in the mad rush to "pass anything soon" may fall through the cracks.

"We never have time to do it right, but we always have the time (and money) to do it over." We all have heard that one many times. When will we ever learn from it?