The United States has a physician shortage, and residency is the bottleneck. The U.S. does not have a shortage of medical school graduates who would like to practice medicine, however. States should pursue these as an opportunity to address the growing physician shortage.
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Why pay unlicensed navigator associations that hire people with no insurance background to “help” people sign up with Obamacare when there are over 100,000 agents nationwide who are licensed, regulated, and ,,, who could do a better job of assisting them — with no tax payer dollars spent to fund them.
I’ve often said that drugs are the best deal in health care. However, that bargain is diminishing. A few years ago, drugs represented about 10% of health care expenditures, physician care about 20% and hospital inpatient care about 30%. Today, drug spending is 11%, while hospital spending is nearly one-third. The absolute best deal in health care are over-the-counter drugs (OTC).