150,000 DOCTOR SHORTAGE LOOMS

More discoveries as a result of the passage of the Health Care Bill are coming out every day. Now, experts warn that, at current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years. The greatest demand will be for primary-care physicians; general practitioners, internists, family physicians and pediatricians will have a larger role under the new law.

COMMENTS:

Market pressures will force the cost of medical care up, contrary to Obama’s promises. Waiting lines will increase. Quality of care will go down. No wonder Congress refused to take part in this themselves.

TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:

Q. Is there really that much Medicare fraud? (Mitch ~ Fernley, NV)
A. Yes. For example, when Medicare lowered the amount it reimburses for a doctor’s visit, doctor’s got creative and started having patients come back for additional visits. There is a significant amount of over-billings and billing for services not performed. On the other side of the coin, how much is it going to cost to hire investigators to sniff out the fraud? Considering how much government workers are making these days, it’s not going to be cheap.


Q. Is it possible that we really could shrink the size of our government? (Sorkis ~ Bellevue, WA)
A. Yes. You could start by firing everyone who is not doing their job or does not know how to do their job. That would probably slice the size of government by over 50% right there, and we’d certainly clean out the White House and Congress in the process.

Q. Is it still unsafe to visit Mexico? (Lillian ~ Duluth, MN)
A. Absolutely. And, if you’re Jewish, stay out of the Sinai as well. The safety of the world is crumbing. The safest place to visit is home, under your bed.

TODAY’S QUOTE:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ~ C. S. Lewis

TODAY’S VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=253PiA7zIl4&feature=aso

THE OBAMA TERRORIST TRIALS - DAY 150:

Three Guantanamo detainees have been transferred to the country of Georgia, leaving 185 prisoners on the Cuban island.