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The bill significantly increases funding (more than double) for the National Health Service Corps to provide scholarships and loan repayments in exchange for a commitment to work in under-served areas. |
Great. Who can make the grade? Who qualifies to make it in the profession? You think anyone can just walk up and be a healthcare provider, a nurse, a doctor? How long does it take from beginning to end to make one? How competitive is it to get into school? Ask around and you will see that plan is a complete failure. The one thing that will happen is that you will see a huge influx of FMG's come to the US from other nations to perform the work. Job creation my ass.
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Between $400 - $500 billion in revenue and cost reductions is hard money...as I pointed out.
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It is funny money created by moving the numbers around. All bets are off if they don't cut the Medicare by 21%, which will sink any Dem who votes for it in the next election, which they have not been able to pull off for years. And when a new administration takes office all bets are off again, they just vote in overrides and change the law, again.
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If you dont think the significant investment in technology will also result in savings, then we disagree. Look at any industry that has invested in technology and you will find savings.
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As a healthcare worker myself I know it is bullshit. No, what we find in government investments is the funneling of money for political gain to projects that have no proven track record of success and most of the money being sent to states and projects within the districts of the Congressional Whores who happen to have power at the time of the Bill. Different side of the same coin.
Take electronic medical records, which we have talked about numerous times on here, savings? Some. But it will never do what the Obama Admin and his Handlers said it would do and it never will.
Those "technology" estimates of savings are a guess, opinion.