Why do we need facts anyway?
on June 25th, 2009 at 4:20 amThey just get in the way.
From washingtonpost.com. 6/09
“As the debate on overhauling the nation’s health-care system exploded into partisan squabbling this week, virtually everyone still agreed on one point: There are not enough primary-care doctors to meet current needs, and providing health insurance to 46 million more people would threaten to overwhelm the system.“
From usatoday.com. 2/08
“From the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, several national advisory groups, including the Institute of Medicine and the Council on Graduate Medical Education, issued reports forecasting a surplus of physicians. As a result, medical schools voluntarily held enrollment relatively constant at about 16,000 new students a year. From 1980 to 2005, enrollment was flat while the U.S. population grew by more than 70 million, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
After educators realized the forecasting mistake, medical schools began accepting more applicants. Last year nearly 17,800 students entered U.S. medical schools, the largest entering class ever.
However, Fischer says there’s “a perfect storm” forming for a shortage of doctors and surgeons because of the time it takes to train doctors — typically three to seven years — and the fact that the number of senior citizens in the USA is growing rapidly.
As the 79 million baby boomers begin entering retirement age, so are their doctors. From 1985 to 2006, the percentage of doctors 55 and older rose from 27% to 34%, and the AAMC predicted in a 2006 report that members of this group — roughly 250,000 active physicians — will retire by 2020.”
Canada has a doctor shortage as well.
Government will be forced to lower medical school standards in order to meet this increasing demand for medical services. Mark my word.
So let’s put this all together.
Obama wants to cover millions more to our health care system knowing full well we already do not have enough doctors in the system. On top of that, both he and his party are pushing to spend upwards to 1 trillion dollars over the next ten years to cover only 1/3 of those without health coverage.
Oh, and we have to act fast.
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