@Tzenker
You're apparently reading an article and repeating numbers. Schools are always making new doctors, but the number is rapidly going down because so many of them are retiring - many of them retiring early because they don't want to deal with all the new paperwork, which was bad enough already. There is no growth, it's definitely a decline.
The statistic that you quote about "visits" to the doctor doesn't include what I was talking about. My "visits" to the doctor are twice a year, which used to be once a year until another federal rule was enforced - about 3 years ago. I have to travel to my doctors office, sign paperwork for a prescription, carry that piece of paper to the pharmacy, then wait there until they fill it. Every month. Last year I went to the doc's office twice a year and re-filled prescriptions over the phone. 3 years ago I went to their office once a year, and re-filled the prescriptions over the phone. I'm burning a lot of petrol, I'm using a lot of my own time, I'm wasting a lot of time for the doc's office and the pharmacy, I'm generating huge amounts of paperwork... all for something that was very simple to do about 3 years ago. And it's all because of the grand-sounding "healthcare reform" that people love to say is such a good thing.
Oh, and on top of all that... I had to drop my health insurance because the payment rates suddenly became twice as much as they were before this so-called "reform". I couldn't afford it anymore. The U.S. government says, "but, you can apply for 'obamacare' now...", which is basically another welfare program that the U.S. can't afford to pay for. So it adds billions, if not trillions, to the National Debt.
I didn't apply for the welfare program. Which means I now have to pay a penalty on my federal tax documents of something like $150, I think. So... I HAD health insurance, they "reformed healthcare", the rates for the insurance went WAY up, I couldn't afford it, I refused to beg for government handouts for the poor, and NOW I'm being fined by the federal government for not having health insurance.
Please, please, tell me how ANY of this makes ANY sense at all. I'd love to hear it.
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@Tzenker
You're apparently reading an article and repeating numbers. Schools are always making new doctors, but the number is rapidly going down because so many of them are retiring - many of them retiring early because they don't want to deal with all the new paperwork, which was bad enough already. There is no growth, it's definitely a decline.
The statistic that you quote about "visits" to the doctor doesn't include what I was talking about. My "visits" to the doctor are twice a year, which used to be once a year until another federal rule was enforced - about 3 years ago. I have to travel to my doctors office, sign paperwork for a prescription, carry that piece of paper to the pharmacy, then wait there until they fill it. Every month. Last year I went to the doc's office twice a year and re-filled prescriptions over the phone. 3 years ago I went to their office once a year, and re-filled the prescriptions over the phone. I'm burning a lot of petrol, I'm using a lot of my own time, I'm wasting a lot of time for the doc's office and the pharmacy, I'm generating huge amounts of paperwork... all for something that was very simple to do about 3 years ago. And it's all because of the grand-sounding "healthcare reform" that people love to say is such a good thing.
Oh, and on top of all that... I had to drop my health insurance because the payment rates suddenly became twice as much as they were before this so-called "reform". I couldn't afford it anymore. The U.S. government says, "but, you can apply for 'obamacare' now...", which is basically another welfare program that the U.S. can't afford to pay for. So it adds billions, if not trillions, to the National Debt.
I didn't apply for the welfare program. Which means I now have to pay a penalty on my federal tax documents of something like $150, I think. So... I HAD health insurance, they "reformed healthcare", the rates for the insurance went WAY up, I couldn't afford it, I refused to beg for government handouts for the poor, and NOW I'm being fined by the federal government for not having health insurance.
Please, please, tell me how ANY of this makes ANY sense at all. I'd love to hear it.