I was listening to an interview on NPR on one of their local programs to a CEO of a medical staffing Corporation here in Utah. He indicated that on any given day there are between 20 to 30,000 job openings for medical professionals across the US. He further indicated that there is a workforce shortage of medical professionals in this country. (And no, this is not a shortage caused by the ACA, this has long been the story in our country).
I also think I mentioned a few months ago that I attended a luncheon in which I met a French physician who said that her husband, who is one of the leading experts in the world in the field of neurology and was a licensed doctor, had been going through a very complex and expensive process to obtain his license here in the United States. He is here engaged in cutting edge research on neurological diseases. She is unable to practice while here also.
This is illustrative of the Achilles heel of the American medical establishment that has prevented market forces from providing inexpensive and efficient healthcare services to the US population and has thereby catapulted the current healthcare reforms into place.
If Republicans and conservatives are sincerely serious about allowing the markets to work in our healthcare system, it needs to relax the US Medical community’s stranglehold on medical education and licensing.
Loren M. Lambert © July 23, 2014
I also think I mentioned a few months ago that I attended a luncheon in which I met a French physician who said that her husband, who is one of the leading experts in the world in the field of neurology and was a licensed doctor, had been going through a very complex and expensive process to obtain his license here in the United States. He is here engaged in cutting edge research on neurological diseases. She is unable to practice while here also.
This is illustrative of the Achilles heel of the American medical establishment that has prevented market forces from providing inexpensive and efficient healthcare services to the US population and has thereby catapulted the current healthcare reforms into place.
If Republicans and conservatives are sincerely serious about allowing the markets to work in our healthcare system, it needs to relax the US Medical community’s stranglehold on medical education and licensing.
Loren M. Lambert © July 23, 2014
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