According to this article, 83% of surveyed doctors claimed that Obamacare has caused them to consider leaving the profession. This article adds urgency to the discussion, saying that even now we are not training enough doctors and of those we train, many of them choose specialty fields rather than primary care.
I don't even has to explain how that fact is bad for you and all of us.
The major cause of both articles is that doctors are not being compensated sufficiently to account for the increasing hassle/cost of being/becoming a doctor.
But wait, aren't healthcare costs zooming skyward? Yes, they are, but at the same time payments to doctors by the various government healthcare plans are being seriously squeezed.
Essentially doctors are being asked to handle more risk, more limitations, and more paperwork without any increase in compensation, while at the same time more and more people demand services. And somehow the government expects ever increasing numbers of people to joyfully leap into the abyss of providing primary care.
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