Once we insure more people, driving up the demand for medical care, the question becomes, where will the doctors come from to implement ObamaCare? That's what Timothy P. White asked today in the Wall Street Journal. Mr. White, who is chancellor of the University of California, Riverside says we need more doctors and fast:
A comprehensive strategy for growing the physician workforce – as well as other allied health professionals such as nurses and physicians' assistants – should be developed and supported with a federal investment at the same time health insurance is expanded to cover millions of additional people.
Without this, gaining access to prompt medical care for all patients will become even more difficult. There will be longer wait times for appointments, less face time with a physician and, in all likelihood, delayed diagnoses leading to more expensive treatment and increased risk of complications. One need only look at the experience of Massachusetts, where the adoption of universal health coverage has intensified the physician shortage.
Leave it to a government program to make something scarce. And why would people want to become doctors under ObamaCare when the government will cut payments and increase workloads all in the name of saving money (on a program that will cost $1 Trillion)? What it will result in is you spending more time waiting for an appointment, more time waiting for medical procedures, and more time being sick.
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