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Originally Posted by MartyOwns
that girl (had no idea who it was)
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Originally Posted by Richer's Ghost
Julia Sagorsky
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No idea who this is either
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Originally Posted by Rhodes 81
Cost of liability insurance, cost of med-school, cost of buying and maintaining equipment, cost of blahdyblahblah. All reasons anyone with a medical degree will fight tooth and nail to keep costs where they are. Good luck changing that.
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The skyrocketing cost of malpractice insurance over the last 30 years is one of the least understood/appreciated parts of the story. Another would be how Americans pay high Rx costs to subsidize the rest of the world paying low Rx costs.
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Originally Posted by Saugus
Actually, you might be surprised to learn that most doctors are in favour of healthcare reform.
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If you're talking about needed reforms to the system, while I agree I dont think people would be surprised by that, as reforms are certainly necessary.
If you're talking about Obamacare as that "healthcare reform", that would be demonstrably false, most doctors are solidly against Obamacare.
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Originally Posted by Saugus
Whatever the case, we desperately need to start providing better incentives for medical students to choose primary care and family practice as a specialty. Reforming the healthcare system does nothing if we have a shortage of doctors after all that.
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Well, we are going to have a doctor shortage. That's one of the (many) problems with Obamacare. The worst part is there's not go to be any "easing" into it, it's just going to SLAM everyone in the face when it happens. It's predictable, it's mathematically obvious, and there's nothing that is or will be done about it.