Discussion: AP: Trump's Claim Of Fleeing Doctors Because Of Obamacare Rings False

“Making the case for a Republican repeal and replacement of his predecessor’s health care law, President Donald Trump reached for a dire-sounding argument that’s unsupported by the data.”

There is a word for that sort of argument and the medias unwillingness to use it is part of why that lying asshole is president.

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And of course the AP doesn’t have the balls to call a lie a lie.

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Doctors also hatehatehate that they’re losing their turf war with nurse practitioners and physician assistants, and specialists like Tom Price hatehatehate that their absurdly overinflated incomes are slightly less disproportionate to the meager salaries commanded by primary care physicians for manning the front lines of care – both shifts encouraged by the ACA. But overall they’ve made the shift to the ACA and don’t want their patients to die for want of insurance coverage.

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In addition, admissions to US medical schools began declining in the late 1990s, fueled partly by dissatisfaction over and frustration with the increasing power that third-party payers – HMOs and other insurers – held over doctors and healthcare facilities.

That the slide began to reverse with the passage of the ACA might have something to do with its emphasis on increasing access to health care, promoting service to underserved communities, emphasizing the centrality of the primary care specialties as the doctor of first contact and the coordinator of specialty care, and its role in addressing the overuse of expensive emergency rooms as primary care and ambulatory facilities.