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re: Effect of Obamacare on doctor salaries?
Posted on 10/27/10 at 10:50 am to LSURussian
Posted on 10/27/10 at 10:50 am to LSURussian
quote:Actually, students are pretty naive.
NC, the issue I can't predict is, if you're correct and MD's compensation declines, at what point will prospective med students say "Fu@k it! I'm not going through all this work!" resulting in a drastic decline in the number of primary care physicians.
So there will be a delay there.
Especially those coming from nonmedical families.
The bigger and more immediate impact will be those MD's in their late 40-50's (the reservoir of expertise) exiting the field or curtailing their practice. That will happen. In fact it is happening. How significant the exodus will be is dependent on the degree to which Obamacare is enacted. With full implementation it could get ugly in a hurry.
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Posted on 10/27/10 at 10:58 am to NC_Tigah
quote:I had not thought about that end of the talent stream, but, yeah, I can see your point.
more immediate impact will be those MD's in their late 40-50's (the reservoir of expertise) exiting the field or curtailing their practice. That will happen. In fact it is happening.
I have a doctor's appointment this afternoon. I'm going to ask my doctor what his thoughts are. He's in his early to mid-fifties. He's a specialist, gastroenterologist, not a primary care physician. Would that make a difference in his opinion of Obamacare?
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