Health Care System Will Fail : Doctors & Hospitals Opting Out

Is the reduction in the number of heath care workers and the future of the industry in peril a known result of the Affordable Care Act, (ObamaCare) when designed?

What a good way to force the entire population that had good heath care, but then was taken away so 9% of the population that didn't have 'insurance' for health care would have it available. The fact that most of the 9% didn't want the insurance as they are young and believe they won't need it for years to come, was a good enough reason to take 'health care' away from everyone else. Single Payer Health Care?

As the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has stated, when all is said and done, more then 40 million citizens will still be without health care insurance. But as the progressive socialists know it won't matter much as the entire health care system as we know it today will nonexistent.

Now more then hundred million people are at risk because of Mr Obama and the progressive socialist liberal democrats designing and forcing ObamaCare on the entire population. And it isn't lost on more the 72% of the citizens that started they don't want ObamaCare, a government run health care system, but are found to be just stupid and dupes of a right wing conspiracy.

But never mind what the people want or need, it's the ideology of the progressive socialist that know better and therefore rule the day. And when the system no longer functions, the straw man for the democrats is ready and waiting the wings to take the blame, the Republicans that wouldn't sign on the magnificence that is ObamaCare. It works every time.

ObamaCare's Impact on the Health Care Workforce
Source: Amy Anderson, "The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Health Care Workforce," Heritage Foundation, March 18, 2014.

March 28, 2014

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will intensify the United States' health care professional shortage, says Amy Anderson, a graduate health policy fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

The ACA is projected to expand health insurance coverage to 34 million people, but expansion of coverage is very distinct from expansion of care.

• The U.S. health care workforce has had a shortage of workers for several decades. The ACA will flood the strained system by unleashing millions of newly insured into doctors' offices across the country.
• Training health professionals takes many years, and unless more students begin graduating from nursing and medical schools (and currently, medical schools are unable to enroll the number of workers needed to guarantee access) Americans are going to see longer wait times and have difficulty accessing health care providers. For those that do get access, they will face higher costs along with shorter time with their doctors.
• Logistically, our current health care resources will not be able to meet the demand created by the ACA. Every health care profession is expecting shortages, as projected supply is not matching up with population growth and aging. The incidence of chronic disease increases with age, thereby increasing the amount of required care. By 2025, almost half of all Americans will suffer from a chronic disease.
• Health professionals are highly concentrated in cities. Only 10 percent of the nation's doctors practice in rural areas, yet 25 percent of the U.S. population resides there. With Medicaid expanding in 26 states, and because rural populations tend to be poorer, rural Americans particularly will have difficulty accessing care. The Department of Health and Human Services projects that 7,987 primary care doctors will be needed in rural areas.
• With the new regulations, doctors and hospitals are going to have difficulty breaking even. Hospitals already laid off 6,000 workers in 2012.
• The ACA will add to physician dissatisfaction, which directly impacts quality of care. Almost 60 percent of doctors would not recommend medicine as a career, and 49 percent intend to stop practicing as soon as possible or reduce the number of years they spend practicing.
• Because of increased regulation and costs, many independent doctors are selling their practices and joining hospital payrolls. By 2011, already half of U.S. doctors were working for hospitals, insurers or corporations rather than in private practice. This shift increases operating costs and raises prices for health care consumers.