Solution to health care crisis - confession of Doctor's son!

[bodryn]

I remember when I was a farm kid in the early 1950's: I went with my mother for a doctor visit, it cost $1. Later I remember it cost $2. Visits lasted around 15 minutes. House calls out on the farm were $5. A two day hospital stay in 1958 with diathermy cost me around $85. One suggestion: it might be helpful if a medical education didn't put somebody $200,000 in debt!

[onlyrey]

I've also heard about the HMOs stories from Colombia, and you are right, some Doctors saw it pretty hard. The interesting thing is that the perception of the quality of health in Colombia actually increased a lot. I also like the idea of the radiology partial outsourcing is great, I actually thought of the same thing a while ago.

[onlyrey]

I asked my sister in law [to be] who is a radiologist (they call themselves imaginologists now) from Venezuela if she would be willing to come here to the US... she said she knows the economic upside is huge, but that she understood from the Doctor's community that being a doctor in the US was too much about the money, also becoming a specialist in the US was extremely difficult because specialties were kept artificially understaffed by restricting the admissions with the exams.