Yay! Osama’s Dead! What About the Coming Doctor Shortage Caused by Obama?
Originally published on LonelyConservative.com
Yay! It’s great! Osama Bin Laden is dead. Hooray! But it doesn’t change the fact that unemployment is still high, gas and food prices continue to soar, or that there’s a coming doctor shortage that President Obama has exacerbated. OBL is laughing at us from his watery grave right now. We’re destroying ourselves from within!
The New York Post reported the news before the Correspondent’s Dinner and the taking out of Bin Laden. While all eyes were focused on what the Obama administration wanted you to focus on, this story got little attention.
The United States already faces a growing physician shortage. As our population ages, we require more and more intensive health care. At the same time, enrollment in medical schools has been essentially flat, meaning we are not producing new physicians at anywhere near the rate we need to. In fact, according to the American Association of Medical Colleges, we face a shortfall of more than 150,000 doctors over the next 15 years.
And it could get a whole lot worse.
The health reform bill signed into law last year is expected to significantly increase the number of Americans with health insurance or participating in the Medicaid program. Meanwhile, an aging population will increase participation in Medicare. This means a greater demand for physician services.
But at the same, the bill may drive physicians out of practice.
Existing government programs already reimburse physicians at rates that are often less than the actual cost of treating a patient. Estimates suggest that on average physicians are reimbursed at roughly 78% of costs under Medicare, and just 70% of costs under Medicaid. Physicians must either make up for this shortfall by shifting costs to those patients with insurance — meaning those of us with insurance pay more — or treat patients at a loss.
As a result, more and more physicians are choosing to opt-out of the system altogether. Roughly 13% of physicians will not accept Medicare patients today. Another 17% limit the number of Medicare patients they will see, a figure that rises to 31% among primary care physicians. The story is even worse in Medicaid, where as many as a third of doctors will not participate in the program….
It gets worse after that. What the hell good is it to have coverage for everyone if there aren’t enough doctors to treat us? We’ll be just like Canada and Great Britain. Great. They come here for treatment. Where will we go? Especially those of us who can’t afford to travel abroad? Now those of us who have done the right thing for our entire lives will be punished. Thanks, Obama, for punishing the productive. But you take credit for killing OBL, so we’re supposed to give you a pass.
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