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re: What are the economics of Affordable Care Act?
Posted on 9/27/13 at 3:35 pm to wiltznucs
Posted on 9/27/13 at 3:35 pm to wiltznucs
quote:Agreed
The argument for nationalized healthcare is that the single payer system as it exists elsewhere is more efficient in terms of dollars spent to deliver care. This is an undeniable fact which is not up to debate.
quote:You really have to look at demographics here- people in Canada and Europe are generally less obese and seem to have better diets than Americans. I saw more obese people in the Atlanta airport (on my way to Europe) than I did in a whole month traveling through 5 European countries. Our lower class citizens are incredibly unhealthy and most of them don't give a shite.
The data also suggests that people in countries with nationalized healthcare generally live longer than Americans so even quality is difficult to debate
quote:Well can you blame someone for being upset that they have worked their arse off through college, medical school, and residency to make peanuts being a PCP. The workload is going up with salaries going down.
Will MD's bemoan Obamacare as driving MD's to quit medicine? Yes they will in spite of the fact that the 2013 graduating class of newly minted Physicians was the largest in American history and 2014 will pump out even more.
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Posted on 9/27/13 at 4:55 pm to saderade
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Well can you blame someone for being upset that they have worked their arse off through college, medical school, and residency to make peanuts being a PCP. The workload is going up with salaries going down.
Its completely speculative on my part but I believe the future of primary care will look differently in the near future. More advanced practitioner roles like ARNP's and PA's working the front lines. MD's will be reserved for more complex cases and specialty work.
To be clear, I do sympathize with the plight of MD's and their student loan debts. The cost of college is another debate for another time. As for peanuts, an interesting article from the UK recently suggests that over a third of their nationalized PCP's are making upwards of $250K per year. There's a lot of folks that would be quite happy with those peanuts.
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