The word for public use...ought to be “sustainable”. If you can’t continue to pay for Medicare in the years to come, all because of this action, then most senior citizens would be against it (whether they were Democrats or Republicans).
I would also caution folks to note just how many patients that a regular country doctor can handle, and if you increased the patient load by twenty percent....would he still take the regular patients? Are magical doctors going to appear in 2014 out of the woodworks to handle the extra load? No...it’s not like just building another McDonalds or opening IHOP an hour earlier than usual. Again, most senior citizens would ask some stupid questions around this point in time if Doctor Joe wasn’t going to be adequately able to see them on a regular basis anymore.
I think, among many other “surprises,” we are going to see a lot of tasks and procedures being redefined so they can be performed by technicians and no longer require a doctor at all.
It even gets worse than that. On Monday, I saw an article that says 83% of existing doctors would end their practice by 2014. Beck did a segment on his show last night on this and had four doctors on the show to discuss what they are looking at. So add that 20% additional workload to only 17% of doctors and the picture gets real ugly.
No problem! Wwhile American Medical Education becomes moreof a restrictive impossible hurdle, we'll simply import thousands of doctors from the Third World, some few of whom actually know what they are doing.
Of course, what The Third World is supposed to do for chancre mechanics is another question.
Urgent Care places are popping up all over San Antonio. Xray machines, MRI’s, the works. By my house, they will cast a broken bone, treat infections and do emergency triage.
Go there on a Friday night during the school year and they are packed with all the kids who got banged up during the football game.