Pelsoi HealthCare Bill Adds 113 million People : No Doctors

Well the bill passed in the House last night but we had all pray that the Senate will dump this piece of garbage of the far left into the nearest dumpster. It has been reported that this is the worst bill to ever come out of the House of Representatives. EVER! And yet it passed, a close vote, but still it passed.

You have to ask how this can be as most of the voting members never read the thing and you know if they had they wouldn't have understood what it had to say. It is so long and complicated, by design, no single person could possible know what it actually has in store for the general public and yet they voted for the monster.

Remember, with nearly 70% of the public satisfied with their current heath care programs and only 3% of the entire population that needs some sort of comprehensive care plan, these Marxists that call them selves our leaders voted to take heath care away from 70%, about 250 million people just to give 9 million heath care, heath care that they already had through the emergency room care. Now all the rest of us will lose our heath care plans while establishing another huge entitlement that will cost trillions of tax payer dollars.

This is about power and control of the population and nothing else. Progressive liberal Democrats are on the move.

This article from the Wall Street Journal addresses only one aspect of the coming problems that this bill has for all of us.


THE COMING SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS
Wall Street Journal

None of the health care reform proposals advancing in Congress addresses a fundamental problem that will soon face this country: a critical shortage of doctors, says Dr. Herbert Pardes, president and CEO of New York Presbyterian Hospital.

There were reform ideas put forward in Congress that would have addressed this problem. Most notably, Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y) and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) have proposed training an additional 4,000 new physicians to add to the 25,000 entering the profession each year. But their proposals haven't made it into the bills on which congressional leaders hope to vote.

If the doctor shortage is not addressed and health care reform is signed into law, millions of Americans will likely find themselves able to obtain insurance for the first time -- but may be unable to find a doctor without a long delay. Why? Because expanding the number of insured patients but not the number of doctors will only increase the demand for services that already must meet the demands of an aging population. We must make sure there are enough health professionals to meet those new demands, says Dr. Pardes.

Even in the absence of health care reform, according to the American Association of Medical Colleges, the United States will face a shortage of at least 125,000 physicians by 2025.
We have about 700,000 active physicians today. One factor driving this shortage is that the baby-boomer generation is getting older and will require more care.

By 2025 the number of people over 65 will have increased by about 75 percent of what it is today -- to 64 million from 37 million today.

Doctors are also aging, says Dr. Pardes: By 2020, as many as one-third of the physicians currently practicing will likely retire.

If health care reform adds millions of people to the health care market, the shortage of doctors will be even greater than it is projected to be now.

It is important to note that the shortage the country will soon face isn't just of primary care physicians. It is true that there aren't enough primary care doctors and nurse practitioners. But it is also true that we need more cardiologists, neurologists, general surgeons, pediatric subspecialists, urologists and other highly trained specialists, says Dr. Pardes.

Source: Herbert Pardes, "The Coming Shortage of Doctors," Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2009.