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This is a response to the new article by Dr. David Sundwall, on the front page of the website.
As a medical student, I would like to see two things addressed when this health care reform occurs to protect ME. Listen, I want to be a healthcare provider for the rewarding patient-care experiences as well, but I want my interests protected. Im human, and am going to be going through YEARS of training and debt to SERVE people. I feel Im entitled.
(a) Address the problem of malpractice insurance costs. If doctors salaries in the subspecialties (neurosurgery, orthopedics being of chief concern) are going to be lowered, then their malpractice costs simply cant remain the same.
(b) If the govt wants to take over healthcare, then at least partially take over my loans for medical school. It seems unfair to our generation of new doctors that we are going to be paying the highest medical school prices and making the lowest salaries.
They need not only address these problems because of ME. Not only because I am selfish and want a nice car and home. They need to because if they dont then gradually less and less people are going to be compelled to go into specialties and medicine and general, and that would cause shortages that would create other uglier problems. Forget ever getting an MRI when you need it, and that kidney transplant that will save your life if you get it before the end of the month. The government doesnt have enough to ration out to the entire population.
I dont consider myself a republican because of many of their social policies, but when it comes to economy they have the right ideas. The solution is not to put control of the system in government hands! It is to re-examine the way in which we control costs. It is possible to do this without the beaurocratic two-headed monster of the American government. The solution lies within the costs being set by pharmaceutical and medical device companies. Regulation by government without government takeover. Obama, take advice from what you are doing on Wall st. You can regulate the free market from your oval office!
As a medical student, I would like to see two things addressed when this health care reform occurs to protect ME. Listen, I want to be a healthcare provider for the rewarding patient-care experiences as well, but I want my interests protected. Im human, and am going to be going through YEARS of training and debt to SERVE people. I feel Im entitled.
(a) Address the problem of malpractice insurance costs. If doctors salaries in the subspecialties (neurosurgery, orthopedics being of chief concern) are going to be lowered, then their malpractice costs simply cant remain the same.
(b) If the govt wants to take over healthcare, then at least partially take over my loans for medical school. It seems unfair to our generation of new doctors that we are going to be paying the highest medical school prices and making the lowest salaries.
They need not only address these problems because of ME. Not only because I am selfish and want a nice car and home. They need to because if they dont then gradually less and less people are going to be compelled to go into specialties and medicine and general, and that would cause shortages that would create other uglier problems. Forget ever getting an MRI when you need it, and that kidney transplant that will save your life if you get it before the end of the month. The government doesnt have enough to ration out to the entire population.
I dont consider myself a republican because of many of their social policies, but when it comes to economy they have the right ideas. The solution is not to put control of the system in government hands! It is to re-examine the way in which we control costs. It is possible to do this without the beaurocratic two-headed monster of the American government. The solution lies within the costs being set by pharmaceutical and medical device companies. Regulation by government without government takeover. Obama, take advice from what you are doing on Wall st. You can regulate the free market from your oval office!
