Affordable Care Act and a New Opportunity
The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or Obamacare has created or uncovered a huge shortage of primary care physicians. Ominous, yes?
There is a vast opportunity hidden in this crisis.
Conservatives have made much about doctors claiming that they'd rather give up their practice than operate under Obamacare.
If the burdens of Obamacare is so onerous to physicians, then that can be remedied with subsidies made directly to doctors who participate rather than insurance middle men.
That's for the short term.
The fact is that the Federal government has an unmatched ability to promote specific industries and make fertile specific fields of endeavor, witness the World War 2 and post-World War deficit promotion of manufacturing which created the greatest economic expansion the world had ever known.
For the long term, America needs an investment on the scale of the GI Bill for education for future primary care physicians.
The GI Bill, no less that the government's investment in manufacturing and infrastructure, contributed to the explosion of the post WW2 middle class.
A massive increase in the number of doctors is an increase in the number of members of the upper-middle class. An increase in the number of well paid individuals creates demand for goods and services, creating a demand which can only be filled by people being hired to provide those good and services.
Far more so than any tax cut to "job creators."
This by itself will will create the tax revenue (from pay roll taxes collected and from taxes on goods and services) which will pay the Federal investment for educational incentives for new physicians.
It would effectively be an unintended social consequence that would benefit the nation, rewarding it for moving in a more progressive nation. Just as it did in response to the Great Depression and the end of World War 2.
This is not a burden on the American tax payers.
This is an investment in the future that will actually the nature to survive the future into an era of economic prosperity not since before the Reagan presidency.
Please Mr. President. DO THIS!
There is a vast opportunity hidden in this crisis.
Conservatives have made much about doctors claiming that they'd rather give up their practice than operate under Obamacare.
If the burdens of Obamacare is so onerous to physicians, then that can be remedied with subsidies made directly to doctors who participate rather than insurance middle men.
That's for the short term.
The fact is that the Federal government has an unmatched ability to promote specific industries and make fertile specific fields of endeavor, witness the World War 2 and post-World War deficit promotion of manufacturing which created the greatest economic expansion the world had ever known.
For the long term, America needs an investment on the scale of the GI Bill for education for future primary care physicians.
The GI Bill, no less that the government's investment in manufacturing and infrastructure, contributed to the explosion of the post WW2 middle class.
A massive increase in the number of doctors is an increase in the number of members of the upper-middle class. An increase in the number of well paid individuals creates demand for goods and services, creating a demand which can only be filled by people being hired to provide those good and services.
Far more so than any tax cut to "job creators."
This by itself will will create the tax revenue (from pay roll taxes collected and from taxes on goods and services) which will pay the Federal investment for educational incentives for new physicians.
It would effectively be an unintended social consequence that would benefit the nation, rewarding it for moving in a more progressive nation. Just as it did in response to the Great Depression and the end of World War 2.
This is not a burden on the American tax payers.
This is an investment in the future that will actually the nature to survive the future into an era of economic prosperity not since before the Reagan presidency.
Please Mr. President. DO THIS!
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