Obamacare simplified for the masses

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Which is a very small number of the overall pool, and can be addressed in other ways that do not operate as a way to sink the insurers the way the public option does.

I disagree with you on this being a "very small number of the overall pool"--I work in a hospital, nearly every chronically ill person I've met have horror stories about the insurance pre-existing condition nightmare they've been through. And to the other half of your comment, that this pre-existing issue can be addressed in other ways...well, the problem with that is it hasn't been addressed by insurance companies until they were forced to do so by the Obama administration and the PPACA.




Of course. That's why we need to push away from the way we currently do licensing, to keep them from having that sort of control.

I imagine the response from the AMA would be fairly brisk and loud on this matter. But beyond physicians and their financial logic of scarcity, there are more reasons as to why we have so few doctors and surgeons. There is the staggeringly high cost of medical school and the limited number of medical schools for one thing. And reducing the restrictions on licensure will do nothing to alleviate this bottleneck. What reduction of licensure restrictions may well do, however, is make things easier for people of less skill to obtain medical degrees. I'm not sure that's the answer you're looking for when it comes to affordable, quality medical care.