re: #232 WindUpBird

Right now our system is actually doing that. it’s not reform that created the shortage of general practictioners in rural neighborhoods and the flood towards being a specialist. That was what our system encouraged. Our “free market” encouraged a lack of GPs, because specialists pay better. It’d be like if our fire departments were privatized, and everyone only wanted to fight high-rise fires, so poor neighborhoods and rural neighborhoods had no fire departments. Free market!

There may be some short-term hurt, there may not be. But in the long term, the current system without reform was completely unsustainable.

the insurance system may be reformed, but the process of educating our own professionals has not…I’m thinking of an environment where kids don’t want to get into the medical business that is flooded with foreigners and fewer prospects for good jobs…just wondering if this will be a long term problem, or no problem at all…I know from my own experience that allied health is very restricted in terms of class size etc