Posted on 08/13/2010 9:49:29 AM PDT by Nachum
AUSTIN – The federal health overhaul could dry up funds that the state's academic medical centers use to produce doctors in Texas, leaders of the University of Texas' six health science centers warned Wednesday.
The medical school presidents said they're not necessarily opposed to the sweeping legislation signed by President Barack Obama last spring, but they worry that their centers may absorb deep financial hits if they don't adapt to a changed marketplace and cut costs.
"We've got incredibly robust institutions, but they're inherently fragile," Daniel Podolsky, president of UT Southwestern Medical Center, told reporters after the presidents briefed UT regents about the new federal law.
Kirk Calhoun, president of the UT Health Science Center at Tyler, said that instead of describing the new law "as good or bad," he prefers to say it creates "a new normal." He said it will require medical schools and their teaching hospitals to be more nimble.
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RATIONED HEALTH CARE ALERT!!!!!
“We’ve got incredibly robust institutions, but they’re inherently fragile,”
Medical Care in the future?
Think about how when your computer won’t talk to your printer, and you call Tech support and get Johnnee in Calcutta.
“Be careful to make sure that you have the unit power cord attached to the printer and plugged into the nearest electrical receptacle”.
Translation: “ObamaCare is going to devastate the medical infrastructure of the country, but we are liberals who voted for the guy, so we have to show public support.”
Gee, I wonder why a kid out of college wouldn’t want to go to 7 - 12 more years of grueling med school only to be told by the Gov’t that his pay will be limited.
Wow - a real stunner !
It's not like anyone's going to be able to afford them anyway.
What else do you know about Texas medical schools?
But tu gave BO a rock star welcome last week. Austin Lefties were orgasmic.
Austin is not Texas, thank God.
Keeping class sizes small,huh?
Not true in most cases. Everytime the vote has been taken to increase the size of medical school classes the states have not funded them. Also, doctor pay has not kept up with inflation and gone down in many. Plus, the average is one lawsuit every four years for internal medicine. It hasn’t helped that we’ve socially engineered our medical schools and the people who came in who weren’t prepared for the rigorous academics have dropped out.
It’s been coming for decades and is going to get worst. Keep blaming the docs...that’ll solve it.
“They have kept the class sizes small for decades. Who are they trying to shi’ite? “
I don’t know about small, but for sure they have not kept up with demand. Part of the ills of the system does indeed rest with them.
“Out with the old doctors. In with the new”. - Stalin
No worries...the government will just ensure that affirmative action is accelerated and expanded and the standards for medical school admission, passing of courses, completion of residency, licensure requirements are lowered to accomodate the needs of the ignorant masses who think Odumbocare is wonderful. And just in case the wonderful plan above doesn’t work, they will just expand the H1B plan for physicians while lowering the standards even more. We don’t need to stinkin physicians that speak English
Many would be physicians are either not choosing medicine because ability to make good money is dwindling and those who do choose medicine are not going into family medicine or internal medicine who happen to be the “gatekeepers” under many insurance plans
What folks need to know about Dr. Podolsky is that before coming to Dallas he was at Harvard; for him to bad mouth, even a little, Obamacare is a huge statement
Just what we need. Fewer doctors for the 16+ million people we add to the healthcare system.
Not counting the doctors that say ‘ hell with this’ and retire.
All medical schools have had a restriction on the number of students - per a long standing system. UT Southwestern has a tiny population compared to any other similar grad program like, engineering or law. They are big because they do research - 10,000 people vs less than 2000 in medical school. They only admit 230 students per year. NObody fails - they hold their hand and mentor till they pass.
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