Doctors, Hospitals, Obaka — and LIES

ObakeKare was passed with a massive tumultuous “huzzah” by the ignorant masses.
Huzzah, huzzah,” the ignorant Free Cheese masses exulted! “We shall receive our Free Cheese with no cost to us — it couldn’t be better than that!”
Except for one thing:
There is NO such thing as “Free Cheese.” The US is already facing a challenge of fewer doctors and nurses.
The new federal health-care law has raised the stakes for hospitals and schools already scrambling to train more doctors.
Experts warn there won’t be enough doctors to treat the millions of people newly insured under the law. At current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
That shortfall is predicted despite a push by teaching hospitals and medical schools to boost the number of U.S. doctors, which now totals about 954,000.
The greatest demand will be for primary-care physicians. These general practitioners, internists, family physicians and pediatricians will have a larger role under the new law, coordinating care for each patient.
The U.S. has 352,908 primary-care doctors now, and the college association estimates that 45,000 more will be needed by 2020. But the number of medical-school students entering family medicine fell more than a quarter between 2002 and 2007.

If you ever think you’ll be attended by four doctors at once in an ER, you are about to be sorely mistaken.

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