Shortages of doctors is NOT a good thing. Errors already occur at alarming rates, and the ACA will make that exponentially worse as gov't rules come into play. The "overhaul" that this article speaks of is in relation to getting the system into more preventative care -- eating properly, exercising, etc. rather than simply treating disease. What percent of this 20 million who are going on insurance through the ACA do you suppose eat right and exercise? Obviously, this is too big a topic for this post, with plenty of blame to go around -- healthcare system, gov't, drug companies, insurance companies, etc. Point is, improvements are obviously needed, but the gov't response of printing massive amounts of debt and throwing money blindly at problems is not the correct one. It never is, and it leads to broken systems that are drowning the country in debt.
"Medical errors are a large reason why the current, fatally flawed medical paradigm is in such desperate need of transformation. A majority of healthcare workers observe mistakes made by their peers yet rarely do anything to challenge them. A substantial portion of American doctors also suffer from burnout on the job, according to a 2012 study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.12
Of the nearly 7,300 doctors surveyed, nearly half had at least one symptom of burnout; 38 percent had high emotional exhaustion scores; and 30 percent had high depersonalization scores (viewing patients more like objects than human beings) – twice the rate of the general population of working adults. Clearly, this is yet another piece of the puzzle as to why US medical care is so dangerous."
