ANOTHER UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE OF THE HEALTHCARE REFORM LAW?

“The new federal health-care law has raised the stakes for hospitals and schools already scrambling to train more doctors.

Experts warn there won’t be enough doctors to treat the millions of people newly insured under the law. At current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

A shortage of primary-care and other physicians could mean more-limited access to health care and longer wait times for patients.”   (WSJ, 4.13.10)

(Editor’s note: Here’s yet another case in point (surprise-surprise) of what happens when the government intrudes on a complex, multi-layered private industry and attempts to “improve” its efficiency by taaking it over.)