Where will you get medical care when your physician retires early?
Most Americans do not realize this, but we are on the verge of a major doctor shortage in the United States. All over America, good doctors are going broke. The way that our health care system is currently set up, they simply cannot make it.
This is what socialism always does. It reduces supply.
These days a lot of politicians are warning us about the dangers of “socialized medicine”, but the truth is that we already have it. About half of all health care dollars in the United States are now spent by the federal government, and a lot of health insurance companies base reimbursements on what the federal government does. In addition, there are a whole host of parasites that have gotten between the doctor and the patient these days. Everyone wants a piece of the health care pie. Health insurance companies, pharmaceutical giants, lawyers, health care “administrators” and government bureaucrats all make a sweet living off of the doctor/patient relationship. It really is sickening. And now Obamacare is going to make things much, much worse. As you will read about later in this article, a stunning percentage of doctors say that they plan to leave the medical profession because of Obamacare. What this means is that we are headed for a chronic doctor shortage and there is a good chance that there will be no doctor for you when you really need one in the years ahead.
Here is statistical reality:
Today, approximately 40 percent of all doctors in the United States are 55 years of age or older. Large numbers of them are getting ready to retire.
Even before Obamacare was passed, we were already facing a massive shortage of doctors in the coming years. The American Association of Medical Colleges has projected that we will experience a shortage of more than 150,000 doctors over the next 15 years.
Unfortunately, the passage of Obamacare is going to make this crisis even worse. A whole host of surveys have shown that a massive number of doctors in America are headed for the exits because of the new health care law….
*According to a Merritt Hawkins survey of 2,379 doctors for the Physicians Foundation that was conducted in August 2010, 40 percent of all U.S. doctors plan to “retire, seek a nonclinical job in health care, or seek a job or business unrelated to health care” at some point over the next three years.
A shocking IBD/TPP Poll taken in 2010 found that 45 percent of all U.S. doctors are considering leaving the medical profession or retiring early as a result of Obamacare.
At the moment, there are approximately 960,000 doctors in the United States.
So what is going to happen if a couple hundred thousand of them suddenly leave the medical profession?
There is another factor.
Doctors in America are harboring an embarrassing secret: Many of them are going broke.
This quiet reality, which is spreading nationwide, is claiming a wide range of casualties, including family physicians, cardiologists and oncologists.
The articles goes on in drtail. You had better read all of it. It ends with this: “Our health care system is irretrievably broken. The federal government has messed it up beyond all recognition and it is not going to get better any time soon.”
In 1977, I went on a speaking engagement with physicians from Australia, Canada, and Great Britain. We warned what was going to happen to physicians. We spoke in 12 cities in 14 days. The physicians ignored us. They are now retired. This generation of physicians will pay the price.
So will their patients.
You need to find a physician who will not retire. You need to find alternative treatments. You need to stay healthy. Your diet counts. Your lifestyle counts.
Time is running out on healthcare.
My Doctor has given notice that he will retire in July of this year … I for one do not blame him one bit … too much regulation and the Lame Brain Lying Muslim Bastard pretend president in DC just SUCK BIG ONES !
We have had shortages in the medical field before and were able to recover from it rather nicely. Unfortunately, the government has intruded so much into the medical practice–and in private businesses–that this shortage may take longer to recover from. As long as the government is permitted to have a say in how a physician should treat the patient, there will be problems in the delivery of healthcare services. We have seen how physicians are frustrated when the insurance companies tell them what they can or cannot do (insurance lobbyists did a number on the public with this one–and this is where obammy got his notion of government intervention), imagine how it will be compounded by government control. Congress should never have allowed insurance companies the offensive intrusion into the treatment of patients and certainly should never have allowed obammy to do the same. Get both of these entities out of medical practice and let us get back to the basics of real medicine.