If ObamaCare is fully implemented, this is what your next visit will look like:
In 2014, ObamaCare will "significantly expand the number of people able to see a doctor" but there are no doctors. What there will be is a long waiting line at the end of which will be a nurse practitioner or 'doctor's assistant.' Maybe. They're short of those too. Do you want to who will be waiting for you at the end of the line? Idiot community organizers wanting to give you a pain pill rather than a pacemaker:
Half the doctors in Michigan will retire in the next 10 years exacerbating the situation. The Detroit Free Press pushed for ObamaCare, now lament it's implications. ObamaCare is creating a huge doctor shortage, and is cutting Medicare reimbursement rates thus removing doctors from the system via attrition. The supply of doctors was already stretched. How did Obama believe that dumping 30 million people into the system wouldn't 'save or create' a shortage? Did he not see what happened in Massachusetts?
There is, of course, another solution. DIYers will love it: Kidney patients to perform kidney dialysis themselves because of ObamaCare. Remember that Edward Jones commercial where a doctor is talking on the phone to his patient? The doctor instructs his nervous patient how to operate on himself from his kitchen with a steak knife. Holding the knife in one hand, the trembling man asks, "Shouldn't you be doing this?" Well, that's what it's going to be like.
I met a nurse from England on vacation once. She said the UK's solution to this problem was to import physicians and nurses from other countries, like Pakistan, many of whom could not understand or speak English. You remember, the blowup at the Scottish airport by Pakistani doctors who doubled as terrorists? Yeah.
ReplyDeleteI am currently in a family nurse practitioner program. I went to college for five years to become a nurse with my BSN. Then, I practiced for two years in a hospital. I have been studying in graduate school for over a year now, and I still have about two years of training in school and clinicals left. After graduating with my master's, I will have to train under a physician for another period of time. Nurse practitioners are not "doctor's assistants" they are highly trained and competent professionals. Studies have shown that they are safe and well accepted by physicians and patients in practice. Patients are usually very satisfied with their experience with a nurse practitioner since they are willing and able to spend extra time with them … so don’t say that you may have to see a nurse practitioner like it’s a bad thing!!
ReplyDeleteThen answer this question: who is medically more trained and competent:
ReplyDeleteA. Doctors
B. Nurse practitioners