Wednesday, March 17, 2010

ObamaCare Could be a Jobs Killer

The Americans for Tax Reform and the Beacon Hill Institute conducted their own study using the Center for American Progress' methodology and got dramatically different results. Instead of the estimated 250,000 to 400,000 jobs that would be created over the next decade, they found that between 120,000 and 700,000 jobs would be lost over that same period of time.

The New England Journal of Medicine surveyed doctors and found that while more than 60% wanted reform, they wanted it more targeted. More then %70 think that income and practice revenue will decline with more than 40% thinking that decline will be dramatic. Perhaps most worrisome is what the bill will do to the supply of doctors. Future supply of doctors may be decreased as well with 27% not recommending medicine as a career if health care reform passes contrasted with the 12% who believe the opposite.

"46.3% of primary care physicians (family medicine and internal medicine) feel that the passing of health reform will either force them out of medicine or make them want to leave medicine.
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72% of physicians feel that a public option would have a negative impact on physician supply, with 45% feeling it will “decline or worsen dramatically” and 27% predicting it will “decline or worsen somewhat.
• 24% of physicians think they will try to retire early if a public option is implemented.
• 21% of physicians would try to leave medicine if a public option is implemented, even if not near retirement age at the time.
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7 comments:

  1. I thought this would be interesting as I'm generally suspicious of CAP and its role in Democratic Party politics, but these people at Americans for Tax Reform haven't even released the study!

    you have no idea what you are possibly saying!

    Because you have no idea how they came to these conclusions!

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  4. Another nugget that may be helpful in the development of your opinions,
    The New England Journal of Medicine did not actually survey anybody. Did you even read the hyperlink you posted here?

    the NEJM had this to say on their website:

    "Recruiting Physicians Today is a free advertiser newsletter published by the Worldwide Advertising Sales and Marketing Department in the publishing division of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Each issue of the newsletter features research and content produced by physician recruiting firms and other independent groups involved in physician employment.

    On December 17, 2009 The Medicus Firm, a national physician search firm based in Dallas and Atlanta, published the results of a survey they conducted with 1,000 physicians regarding their attitudes toward health reform. To read their survey results at The Medicus Firm website, click here.

    The opinions expressed in the article linked to above represent those of The Medicus Firm only. That article does not represent the opinions of the New England Journal of Medicine or the Massachusetts Medical Society."

    It seems you have seized upon what appears to be essentially a promotional document from a "physician recruitment firm" in order to argue that health care reform will cause physician recruitment and retention problems in the future.


    It seems you have seized upon what appears to be essentially a promotional document from a "physician recruitment firm" in order to argue that health care reform will cause physician recruitment and retention problems in the future.

    dude, a public relations firm with a whose existance is a result of the current shitty system- hello anybody home!?

    just tell me though, was it "just close enough" for you, do you have zero analytic capabilities or do you enjoy swallowing everything fox news feeds you?.. because it just feels good.

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  5. sorry i didnt edit the above post, but i found this information just too good to wait.

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  6. http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/?p=3176&query=home

    http://www.nejmjobs.org/rpt/health-reform-may-reduce-physician-workforce.aspx

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  7. @Ian Spencer Dubrowsky - What do you mean 'The New England Journal of Medicine did not actually survey anybody', you quoted that part that disproves that statement "published the results of a survey they conducted with 1,000 physicians regarding their attitudes toward health reform"?

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