Doctors Seeking No Insurance Alternatives

America’s health insurance problems are getting worse. Half the respondents in a survey of primary care physicians (aka the family doctor) said they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative. Why? Because of all the red tape from insurance companies and government agencies. The survey was released by the Physicians’ Foundation which promotes better doctor-patient relationships. It wanted to find cause behind the sudden exodus of many family doctors and internists. The trend is reaching medical students who are tending to shy away from family medicine and opting to choose more specialized fields. The American Medical Association says only 2 percent of medical students plan to enter primary care. The AMA is also predicting a primary care physicians shortage of 35,000 to 40,000 by 2025. To combat all the red tape many doctors are limiting the type of health insurance they’ll take and the number of patients on Medicare and Medicaid. So what to do? Physicians are saying it’s time to make some changes to the health care field and in the insurance industry. Many are looking to Barack Obama’s administration for the solution. He wants to provide a primary care physician for every American. Some health experts are skeptical saying that giving a whole bunch of people insurance who didn’t have it before without out increasing the number of physicians is going to be problematic.

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