Increasing Residency Slots will Solve Primary Care Problem?!?!

[medicinesux]

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125928189292865761.html?mg=com-wsj#articleTabs=article

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant our govt is! Let's trap more poor souls into an utterly overworked thankless specialty without addressing the core problems why med students shun this field. Best comment to this article:
"If Hippocrates was alive, he would shoot himself if he saw what medicine has become."

 

[koopa_troopa]

Unfortunately in their minds this will be a success no matter what. Even if there is no change in the number of US grads going into primary care, they know that IMGs will happily jump on those 2000 spots. "Shortage solved"

 

[medicinesux]

actually if this were to go through, more us citizens would be filling these spots since allopathic schools and DO schools have been recently ramping up enrollments like there was no tomorrow.

 

[MOHS_01]

Flood the market with supply in a price fixed construct, watch total costs escalate, provide further impetus to begin the curtailing (rationing) of covered services, drive down pricing, consumption, and thus compensation, and eventuate in the strongarming of providers into the shelters of corporate entities or public institutions. Sounds like a sound plan to me.🙄

 

[RGMSU]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125928189292865761.html?mg=com-wsj#articleTabs=article

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant our govt is! Let's trap more poor souls into an utterly overworked thankless specialty without addressing the core problems why med students shun this field. Best comment to this article:
"If Hippocrates was alive, he would shoot himself if he saw what medicine has become."

There are already tons of residency slots that go unfilled each year, at least by US allopathic grads. Won't change anything other than to increase those number of unfilled slots.

 

[sgtbrushes]

Are you surprised? Our solution, as a capitalist society, was to lend money to companies that offered a product that was (a) lower quality and (b) higher cost than its competitors. Our solution to terrorism was this fustercluck at the airports with TSA. How many women over the age of 55 ("AARP eligible") have committed acts of crime in the U.S.? I'm just curious.

I'm sure it's already happening, but the solution needs to be found with a joint Doctor/ politician committee - not just politicians ignorant of how the system works.

 

[CoffeeCzar]

Flood the market with supply in a price fixed construct, watch total costs escalate, provide further impetus to begin the curtailing (rationing) of covered services, drive down pricing, consumption, and thus compensation, and eventuate in the strongarming of providers into the shelters of corporate entities or public institutions. Sounds like a sound plan to me.🙄

Well, come on. We can't allow doctors to earn immoral profits at the expense of their patients can we?

😉

 

[medicinesux]

NPR just did a five minute clip on this:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121134045

 

[CoffeeCzar]

I like how both the Senate and House bills do nothing to fix the underlying problems in the medical field like increasing debt burdens and decreasing reimbursements. Instead, they focus on using that burden to control physician behavior through loan repayment programs that are geared towards goals the government wants to further. In other words, they are not going to fix any of the problems they created for the profession in the first place. Unless, that is, we do what they say.

Reminds me of how they regulate by withholding federal funding for research and highway funds if institutions fail to meet federal guidelines.