10 Ways to Fix Health Care: Opinions from 10 Experts
Amy from the Online Nursing Degree Directory emailed me to let me know about a new post on the ONDD blog about how to fix health care. All ten opinions are interesting, but here's the one I like the most.
6. Cut costs for med students
Like CDC head Julie Gerberding, Robert B. Goldberg, who heads the Medical Society of the State of New York, also points to medical school as the place to start change. But his argument focuses on the costs to students, not the separation of education. Large amounts of debt, he says, forces many medical students to specialize in one area instead of becoming the more needed primary care physicians.If payment structures were changed, Goldberg says, the best and the brightest medical students might be able to afford to select primary care as their field. Giving future doctors more accessibility to electing primary care as their specialty would reduce scheduling delays, improve quality of care and allow for more efficient medical practices, Goldberg says.
Personally, I think we need to have complete student loan forgiveness for most doctors. I would imagine that physician availability would increase if it didn't cost $200k+ to get an M.D.
P.S. - None of these experts say the solution is tort reform.
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