Will You Still Want To Play Doctor?

There is a famous commercial from a few years ago where a guys says "I'm not a doctor but I play one on TV". Well pretty soon playing a doctor will earn you more than being a real one. After the soon to be passed health care bill takes effect, the medical profession will lose not only many practitioners but also prestige. The Canadians have traditionally come to the US seeking higher pay which they cannot obtain in their own salary capped government run system. Polls suggest that some doctors will either retire or leave the profession altogether.

I don' think the administration has asked themselves where will all the doctors come from to treat the extra 20 million people on the system? For those who use the cliche " we are the only industrialized nation without universal health care" should consider the facts: Canada has approximately 33 million, roughly the same as California. Denmark and Sweden have less than 10 million people respectively. The US has population of 300 million+, an out of control immigration problem and an equally out of control violent crime rate. It is naive to think that in this system and at this point and time everyone can be covered. There is also the unmentioned drug abuse problem. It is estimated 12.8 million Americans, about 6 percent of the household population aged twelve and older, use illegal drugs on a current basis. According to the president insurance companies will be forced to insure all of them. I have a question for my President: If insurance companies can no longer refuse insure people with pre-existing conditions, then why would anyone buy insurance before they get sick? Just a thought.

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