re: Doctors just up and quitting

Clearly a Kamala voter


Many have no clue on foreign healthcare and/or socialized medicine
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What did Trump do to improve health care during his first run?

Don’t just ask what Trump did. It’s how Obamacare started all of this. It conglomerated hospitals and doctors offices. It made rates go up 300% in some cases. We were told by the savior herself Nancy Pelosi that insurance costs would be spread out over all the new healthy young people coming into the market. I paid $45 a month for health insurance in 1999. I now pay $1600 a month. Make sense?

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You implied doctors are in the AMA

Maybe 20% are

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I seem to remember an article on Doctor Grumpy's blog that implied that the AMA want's $400 annualy to be member that has near zero benefits other than offering cheap financing other than a new S class.
I can't imagine an OT or MD financing anything unless zero interest.

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The docs themselves are to blame for a big part of this, as their cartel (AMA) actively prevents people from becoming doctors, thus driving up the price

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LCME would be the “cartel” you are looking for. The AMA has no control over accreditation of seats/schools.

I see a lot of medical people complaining about the state of medicine and such. The reality is 99% of us didn't go to medical school and become doctors so it is impossible for us to put in yalls shoes. I do know however that yall demand to live an upper class lifestyle so yeah yall are probably paying on a lot of credit.

I mean "Obama-care" & free market Healthcare both will have it's drawbacks. Supplementing insurance payments from healthy people to cover the costs of others seems to be the natural business model of any type of insurance.. the issues obviously lie in the costs of goods and services at the point of charge. Which when involving insurance companies typically is as high as possible. This can be charging a premium for the price of the drug itself, requiring a premium for Labor "high payed medical salaries, which is of course considered revenue", and lastly the cost of maintaining a medical facility in pristine condition (monitoring exact temperature, extreme cleanliness, & high dollar testing equipment all backed by emergency power generator. All this costs and charges are lot of money. Which is the basis of how a microeconomy can develop around a set industry.

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The docs themselves are to blame for a big part of this, as their cartel (AMA) actively prevents people from becoming doctors, thus driving up the price.

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Others have corrected you regarding the other aspects but one of the issues with the 'doctor shortage' is actually a lack of Drs in rural areas. Lots of new Docs have zero interest in practicing in rural areas or basically anywhere that's not in or near a large urban area.

Tell them to open a no insurance clinic or be private physicians. One serves the poor one the rich. Born due incredibly well, as I have buddies in both groups.

The no insurance guys have a place charge 50-100 per visit and have a staff on one to two max. The drug companies load them down with so much freebies they can dx people and give them drugs too. They net 250 or so a year but they all love it. See 20-30 people most days.

The private physician model is where you get 50-100 people to pay you 5-9k a year to be a private doctor with house calls etc. You can work out of your house and really need zero or just part time staff if any.

There was huge movement to this about 10 years ago

But the 20% that are can do a lot of damage to patients and don't think for one second there's some spinoff version that has another 20%. Gotta use logic especially when comparing our system to other countries in spending the most and living the least as long.