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    The Medicus Firm Physician Survey: Health Reform May Lead to Significant Reduction in Physician Workforce
    The results from the Medicus Firm survey, en led “Physician Survey: Health Reform’s Impact on Physician Supply and Quality of Medical Care,” were intriguing, particularly in light of the most recently published career projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BLS predicts a more than a 22 percent increase in physician jobs during the ten-year period ending in 2018. This places physician careers in the top 20 fastest-growing occupations from 2008 to 2018. Meanwhile, nearly one-third of physicians responding to the survey indicated that they will want to leave medical practice after health reform is implemented.
    http://www.themedicusfirm.com/pages/...-health-reform

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    I guess we'll see. I certainly can't wait until firms like The Medicus Firm go out of business. Less middle man, more savings...

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    Doctors will still get paid and laid. They "will want to leave" but they won't.

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    Doctors will still get paid and laid. They "will want to leave" but they won't.
    Yeah because no one taps ass like a government employee.

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    Yeah because no one taps ass like a government employee.
    They won't be government employees.

    You really don't know much about this, do you?

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    A large %age of docs have been dispirited and frustrated by pre-reform healthcare. ACP, Am. College of Physicians, had poll where 50% of the docs said they would discourage their kids from medicine, and wouldn't be docs again if they knew how ty it was to go through residency and then start practice $200K in debt.

    The largest problem I see with a potential dollop of 30M+ new patients is at the primary care level, that many docs have already fled, due to the tiness of for-profit insurance company overheads eating up their revenues, fleeing to the much higher paying specialties that have the luxury of hiding from clients behind the (make work) gatekeeping of primary care docs.

    This assume of course that these 30M+ people will avail themselves of the available care. I suppose that nearly all of them are near or below the poverty level, where caring for their health is not a priority. (suicidally, severely overweight and obese, eg, Hispanics and blacks, is a cultural problem, not no-care-available problem)

    Congress has to attack the AMA for getting an agreement to limit residencies to 100K/year, which has resulted in artificial inflation of doc's revenues while leaving the country badly under-doctored. A classic example of a medieval guild limiting entry to its guild to inflate its wealth. The country has to produce more docs, esp at the primary care level.

    There will be enormous problems but they will be problems getting to solutions, whereas the current health care up is nothing but a problem getting worse and worse.

    All the while, the Repugs and dumb wrongies will be left out, marginalized monkeys on the sidelines, jumping up and down, screaming, and throwing banana peels and monkey , aka part of the problem, not part of the solution.

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    Yeah because no one taps ass like a government employee.

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    fine print: The medicus dip s surveyed insurance company ceo's

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    Docs will just continue doing like their doing, refusing Medicare and Medicaid patients because their wasteful, even fraudulent, 5-star overheads are so high.

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    nearly one-third of physicians responding to the survey indicated that they will want to leave medical practice after health reform is implemented.
    And get a job doing what?

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