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So basically, more patients will be newly insured and there will be shortage of doctors to treat them. That isn’t good. Guess you cannot have everything.

You can call the students “lazy” for not wanting to pursue medicine because of healthcare reform, but in their defense, it’s a hard profession to enter. The education of a doctor is rigorous and long, filled with toils and tears and lots and lots of money. I’m at the beginning and I’ve more than once cried to myself alone, not because I was loving medicine any less, but because my worries about my future freedom to practice were increasing. Freedom to compete (sometimes with the government) and liberty to practice is directly correlated to the quality of care a doctor’s patients will receive. I didn’t want healthcare reform to hurt my potential future patients. I’m not one to want people to go uninsured, but I’d rather provide completely free medical care for people in a free society than be forced to take government money and abide by their oftentimes bullshit laws.

You can sympathize, but only one pursuing this profession could know exactly what it’s like. I’ve had doctors pat me on the back and told me to go on, and I will go on. I’m not going to let politics weed me out of this. You can’t have it all; it seems excellent that more people will be insured, but what most people don’t tell you is that increasing state control over healthcare is turning off potential and established doctors alike. People turn their backs on what is now becoming a less lucrative investment. Look past the “selfishness” and realize that many of these people may become strong, professional, excellent physicians. 

And when people do that, there will be fewer doctors available to treat patients. What good is free insurance from the government if fewer doctors are available and patients are faced with a shortage of medical care?

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