On October 1 2012, Fox News published an article titles “Why
ObamaCare has doctors depressed and Discouraged” This article was written by
Doctor Marc Siegel an associate professor of medicine and medical director of
Doctor Radio at NYU Langone Medical Center. He is also a member of the Fox News
Medical A team and author of “The Inner Pulse.” In the article he discusses his
personal dissatisfaction with Obama care and states that the majority of doctors
are also opposed to it. Evidence supporting his declaration is based on many
surveys such as Deloitte, Sermo, Doctor-Patient Medical Association and Investor
Business Daily and his own informal surveys. Reasons for his dissatisfaction were
generalized he says doctors are already “overburdened, underpaid, ill equipped…..”
and that the problems which will be generated from Obama care will result in
many doctors cutting back on accepting new patients especially Medicare
patients. Siegel points to the growing doctor shortage in this country and says
that Obamacare will only exacerbate the shortage. Many of the surveys cited
mention that the same doctors and pessimistic about the future of medicine and would
not recommend their children to enter healthcare as an occupation. I think the
authors attended audience is really anyone that will be affected by Obamacare. I personally agree that Obamacare is riddled
with problems and will exacerbate problems already present in the healthcare system
plus create new ones even more detrimental then the ones that would result if
the current system remained unchanged. Although I think the current system is
in need of reform in my opinion Obamacare is not the answer.
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