Access Denied: The Approaching Shortage of Specialist Doctors

Government health care policies threaten access to highly skilled physicians. These policies are based on faulty assumptions.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• healthcare reform
• access
• specialists
• prevention
• primary care
• Medicare

[pzulwisner]

So, according to the data shown here, all the countries that have government run health care have more specialists per patient and those specialists are better paid. So, while the US free market system is failing to provide sufficient specialists, other countries have the solution. (Please watch it again with this in mind.)

We need a health care system that's accountable to the people it serves.

[OnePatient]

"Free market?" There is almost nothing about our healthcare system that resembles a free market.

The person who needs health care doesn't purchase it. The provider of healthcare is not paid by the person who needs it. The people who pay for it don't receive it.

Other countries have wrestled with shortages/waiting lines and adapted. Proposed legislation will force us to relearn lessons already addressed by Canada and the UK, in the case of joint replacement.

[mark1m]

congressman dont read most bills. They have aids read it for them.

and how many bills have you read in the past? im willing to bet the number is 0. In fact im willing to bet the number is 0 for everyone posting on this video.

[leadpndguitar]

bullshit, not all bills are even close to that complicated. go and read a couple. bullshit, my congressman has admitted to never reading and not even caring what's in the bill. bullshit, the public is getting a general idea of what's in the bill, and YES THE GENERAL PUBLIC HAS READ MANY MANY BILLS!!!!! and as for your last sentence i must agree...

[mark1m]

all bills that pass through congress are just as complicated. The more changes a bill proposes... the more pages it is. I can guarantee your congressman knows more about this healthcare bill than any other bill during the past 2 decades. Granted the public doesnt have a clue whats in it... but the public also has never even tried to read a bill before. Especially because the healthcare lobbyists have made sure to read every line of text looking for any possible angle to attack it from.

[shaithis45]

This health care debate should be dropped. Next we need to support farmers' rights for growing organic Marijuana and selling it directly to the public w/ all applicable Federal/State/Local taxes. That would fill ye old coffers of Fed/State/Local budgest alike. Then we can smuggle our legal product back into Mexico and make it a two way street vs. a one way street. We need to have some type of export going south of the border am I right?  Put them Mexican weed wackers out of business yes?

[shaithis45]

nope the nation will never be the Soviet Union. Too many people adjusted to a certain way of life Can't control the masses this time around especially in an information age. The system is made up of layers of govt. and the Federal/State/Local Levels so some level will fight back and it probably will be States vs. Federal abuses/tyranny. Just one scenario, but frankly voters have to start realizing that the two party system is not their friend. That might still take some convincing.

[shaithis45]

lpg, all one can do is wait for the govt. to act then react. I'm just waiting to see how far govt. at the Federal level tries to push stuff on the public that is unconstitutional before states start fighting back. There is such a thing as bad govt. and I think the mandate for people to buy insurance or be fined is fair warning of bad govt. Just need to vote out the garbage and actually start seeing 66% of the vote going towards real candidates vs. candidates that are self serving.

[leadpndguitar]

the government is not supposed to work like that!! what if everything that was proposed and made to sound good like health care was immediately rammed through congress without serious debate? or especially THE INTERESTS OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS, besides, everyone in congress WORKS FOR THEIR CONSTITUENTS, right? i mean that's the way it's supposed to work

[leadpndguitar]

hey man there's not that many bills that make you navigate through the whole document, flipping and flipping and flipping pages just so you can read one paragraph

[DysautonomiaMD]

I am an anesthesiologist (albeit disabled due to an 'invisible' diagnosis, Dysautonomia. People lay bed-ridden with this disease for ?15 years? Standing = Fainting for us. Took me 6 months to get a diagnosis, but that was after fighting for my life, refusing to go to a nursing home without a diagnosis, and...the future looks scary. Bunches of medical students went into Family Practice back in 1996 when Hillary wanted to change the health care system.. Healthy? Run, swim, enjoy life, thank God.