New Mexico Business Weekly - A third of U.S. doctors say they will leave the practice of medicine in the next decade, according to a new study by Jackson Healthcare. The reasons for doctors wanting to quit medicine included higher medical malpractice insurance and overhead costs, and not wanting to practice medicine in an era of health care reform, the study said. Fifty-six percent of those surveyed cited economic factors for wanting to leave medicine, and 51 percent cited health care reform, Atlanta-based Jackson Healthcare said in a news release. “Physicians are retiring in large numbers just as baby boomers are starting to turn 65. That creates a real health care access problem. Many are demoralized and weighing their options,” said Richard Jackson, chairman and CEO of Jackson Healthcare. Read More News New Mexico
One-third of U.S. doctors plan to leave practice in 10 years
New Mexico Business Weekly - A third of U.S. doctors say they will leave the practice of medicine in the next decade, according to a new study by Jackson Healthcare. The reasons for doctors wanting to quit medicine included higher medical malpractice insurance and overhead costs, and not wanting to practice medicine in an era of health care reform, the study said. Fifty-six percent of those surveyed cited economic factors for wanting to leave medicine, and 51 percent cited health care reform, Atlanta-based Jackson Healthcare said in a news release. “Physicians are retiring in large numbers just as baby boomers are starting to turn 65. That creates a real health care access problem. Many are demoralized and weighing their options,” said Richard Jackson, chairman and CEO of Jackson Healthcare. Read More News New Mexico
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Isn't it profoundly amazing that the number one contributor to escalating health care costs, LAW SUITS AND HIGHER MALPRACTICE INSURANCE PREMIUMS, was ignored by the democrats and Obama? Obama cares so much about reducing the cost of health care to Americans that he deliberately ignored including tort reform in the new health care law. How's that hope and change working out for everyone?
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