“No End in Sight for Doctor Shortage” reports “The nation is short of thousands of primary-care doctors. Medical schools plan to add 3,000 first-year students by 2018, but that won’t be enough to meet the need, according to a report from Bloomberg.com.
“Though schools plan to educate more doctors, the demand for physicians is expected to soar if Congress passes a health care reform plan aimed at getting insurance to 31 million more Americans. The bill is being debated at a time when government-funded training for doctors has been frozen for 12 years, Bloomberg reported.”
WATCHDOG: As part of a movement to national Medicare or some other form of true health care reform, full scholarships for attending medical school should be provided by the federal government.
This will have two beneficial results: It will enable many more talented individuals to attend medical school. And graduates no longer will have their attention riveted on paying off a quarter of a million dollars in debt.
Under a national health care system, doctors will be well paid, but not aspire to become multi-millionaires. Ample young people will choose the career in order to serve the needs of others rather than to grow rich.
