Washington County Republican  February 2019 Lincoln Day Dinner Saint George Utah – Dick Morris  critiques Medicare for All – as Medicare for None, because there are  Not enough Physicians by hundreds of thousands

Dear Representative Seegmiller,

    Last Saturday you heard Dick Morris’ comment on Medicare for All is Medicare for None, because there are not enough Physicians.  I’ll tell you that was the first time since 1975, that anyone, in any speech, I heard, or read, has mentioned the shortage of physicians as a problem.  My antennae have been up, hoping and listening for that. The shortage is more fully laid out below.

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Adopt a platform to TRIPLE the number of Medical professionals, by opening hundreds of new medical and osteopathic schools.  Set a Goal to have TWO million physicians in the U.S. Why 2 million?   The US has 2 million attorneys, less than one tenth of a percent trained overseas versus  750,000 physicians, with one fourth trained overseas, half of them from India and Pakistan.  Many worry about the medically uninsured.  Few are worried about the legally uninsured. Why? Because if you have a reasonable case, some attorney somewhere will take it on, maybe ten attorneys will do so.     Since World War Two the US has not educated enough physicians (also nurses, therapists, dentists, pharmacists)  to replace those MDs or DOs dying and retiring.   The gap having been filled by importation.   The 10 year cost of training an additional 10,000 more physicians is $126 Billion,  1/15th the cost of insurance subsidies.  Thereupon, 28,000 a year would be added to the US health care for ever.   The MCAT scores about 45,000 science[i] students a year.  You can’t even sit for the MCAT until after completing  more than a year’s worth of heavy college level science courses (usually stretched out over 3 years).  The MCAT test takers compete for about a third that many medical school seats.   If twice the seats were opened, all seats would be immediately filled.  If three times the seats were opened, all would be immediately filled. If Ten times the seats were opened, applicants from past years would fill them.  There are approximately 250 law schools in America, including correspondence and on line formats.  In two generations, the number of attorneys has increased from one lawyer for 695 Americans in 1951 to one lawyer for 264 Americans in 2000.  If law can, why not medicine?  The Veterans Administration sets the highest standard for quality health care, because it trains a fourth of our physicians, and is by far the largest so to do. Its goal is to have 1 physician per 60 patients, which is the Veterans’ Administration standard.  1 to 60 would  be a goal of 7 million physicians.  It would take about 50 years, but it is doable.   I have a 36 page white paper with more details, costs, means. If you want it, call 203-524-6283, or email FATMRepublican@live.com with School in the subject line. 

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Part 68.  2015 – Mark William Andrew Holder, M.D.; Decision and Order. … of drug abuse, his use and abuse of marijuana and Adderall, the sources supplying him … other drugs such as cocaine and marijuana to Respondent; (3) a [[Page 71620]] …not Medical Manure

and the previous 40 parts relating how the DEA pulls Doctors’ prescription authority for violation of the Controlled Substance Act, including Marijuana.

The people need to be informed, and medical schools opened.

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