This may sound nuts now but if this healthscare bill becomes law they are predicting a huge shortage of doctors on top of the shortage that would occur anyway due to aging baby boomers. This makes me think that if the federal government can force people ,via a tax penalty, to buy a product or service then why couldn't it force college bound students to become doctors instead maybe the engineer they planned on. The feds could simply refuse student aid if the student didn't comply or a tax penalty just like the insurance mandate. Yep I agree it sounds crazy but then I thought forcing us to buy a service such as health insurance was crazy too but it sure as hell looks like it going to be a reallity. Right now I wouldn't put anything past those fuckers.

I think you need a Xanax.

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OMFG! And maybe the medical schools to train them will actually be prison camps! And maybe the teaching physicians there will actually be Cuban agents!

Sounds like the weakest totalitarian state ever.

"They...they forced me into the world's most respected profession!"

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well it looks like glenn beck actually DOES have an account here after all...sinebar why haven't you defended yourself against accusations of rape in 1990? where were you in 1990? i'm just asking questions...

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Rofl!

Of course, maybe it won't be the world's most respected profession after it becomes just another government job filled by candidates who were forced into it from prison labor camps.

Of course it won't be the world's most respected profession when they are just government bureacrats like the fat, mean-tempered, lazy women who work at the driver's license bureau.

I'd have to see a link to a news story or something before I believe this as true BUT taking what you say as at face value for the moment; I don't think any of us would want to get treatment from a doctor that was forced into the profession.

If pure market forces can't lure people into the profession and the govt. has to force or compel people into it then that makes me question the kind the health care I might get from such a doctor.

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Eh, teachers get special tuition help. Is that bad?

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Probably. Its not like there is a shortage of teachers, just a shortage of good teachers. That is because of the NEA, the local unions and the pernicious influence of professional teacher training at colleges.

this is what happened in the USSR and across the eastern bloc. kids got funneled to this profession or that. of course docs did get the big bucks and s they failed on these five year plans as well. they tended to send females that way.

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Well don't blow a gasket. I'm just throwing this out there for fun. But I got to tell ya I'm starting to wonder about the direction of this nation.

Really?......I put todays doctors right up there with electricians, mechanics, teachers, etc. They are now a compromised lot, it seems (to me).

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FORCE, I don't see how anyone can force another to be a doctor but at the same time I don't see why anyone would want to be a doctor under any form of socialized medicine or socialized health care. Its basic risk vs reward and I highly doubt even the best of us [humanity] can stand our shit.

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