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I recently read an article that said 70 percent of all GPs 
replied in a study that they were unhappy with their jobs 
and would gladly change professions if they could. They 
cited the biggest problem as all the paperwork the 
insurance companies require, that they spend half their 
day doing paperwork and the other half rushing patients 
through. The article also said there are very few med 
students that want to become GPs, it's much more lucrative 
to become a specialist, and that there will be a shortage 
of GPs in the future. I know our own GP has recently 
started to cancel our appointments with little more than 2 
hours notice, and I can only presume he has decided to 
golf. As much as I like him and feel he is competent in 
diagnosis, we are shopping around for a new one.

So once again, it's the insurance companies who are 
causing the problem, instead of helping. If they don't get 
the hmo paperwork out of whatever the solution is going to 
be, I can't see the situation changing much.

--Sage

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:22:25 -0600
 "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:55 AM, bob ford 
> <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I do agree with you that national centralized 
> > health-care is a bad idea.  But, only because I think it 
> > will not work as advertised and will lead to rationing 
> > and lower the standards of health care for everone in the 
> > country except the very rich..................
> Just like Medicare has done.
>
> Marie
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