Joseph Stubbs, president of the American College of Physicians — the second-largest doctors' group in the country — confirms that "the supply of doctors just won't be there" for the 30 million new patients. This doctor shortage is "already a catastrophic crisis," Stubbs noted that underserved areas in the U.S. currently need almost 17,000 new primary care physicians even before Obama's proposals are enacted.

In the meantime, according to Bloomberg News, a 2009 survey by Merritt Hawkins & Associates, a recruiting and research firm in Irving, Texas, found that "the average waiting time to see a family-medicine doctor in Boston…is 63 days, the most among the 15 cities" surveyed. By comparison, in Miami, it was only seven days.  Boston's longer wait is because of their  healthcare reform — the one Obama is copying.

Bloomberg reported that "as many as half of doctors in the state have closed their practices to new patients, forcing many of the newly insured to turn to emergency rooms for care."

Alan Goroll, a professor at Harvard Medical School says that we cannot increase the number of insured unless you have the doctors to treat them all. Makes sense, no?

Indeed, the report found that the Medicare cuts contained in the House-passed bill are likely to "prove so costly to hospitals and nursing homes that they could stop taking Medicare altogether."

As details of the doctor shortage, Medicare cuts, tax increases, penalties for no insurance, shallow subsidies and high costs for the uninsured all leak out, more and more Americans are developing qualms about the bill.

But within Congress, the momentum is the other way as the bill hurtles toward December passage in the Senate — regardless of the facts or common sense.

Of course, they are tyring to lessen the burden of patients upon doctorts by denying care from, the start. See And So It Begins

source: Dick Morris.com

…the RATIONING

The new rationing….er, government recommendations, is saying that breast self-exams are worthless and doctors are to stop teaching women how to do them.

Has the Taliban invaded? Sounds like women are now not to be educated and basically, kept down!

This reversal from a mere 6 months ago wants mammograms to be started after the age of 50 and two entire years between them — to save costs. Oh, yeah, they are babbling about false positives and saving women the anxiety of testing. But through the smoke and mirrors, they are RATIONING and picking on women as their first target.

Defies Logic and All Medical Advice

These guidelines are so transparent — the only thing transparent in Obama World. But it means the death of women. It means motherless children. Because we are now reduced to a sum of money.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a government panel of doctors and scientists who have sold out, say now that early screenings often lead to false alarms and unneeded biopsies.

It also identifies women with aggressive early cancers whose lives will be saved. Wait until 50 and they are dead. But then, they won't need any medical services and won't cost the Government and money. Ah — Mission Accomplished.

You have been warned.