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From the Wall Street Journal
April 12, 2010

According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the nation could face a Doctor shortage of at least 150,000 in the next 15 years.

The Wall Street Journal Article states,

The U.S. has 352,908 primary-care doctors now, and the college association estimates that 45,000 more will be needed by 2020. But the number of medical-school students entering family medicine fell more than a quarter between 2002 and 2007.

A shortage of primary-care and other physicians could mean more-limited access to health care and longer wait times for patients.

Read the entire article here.

In other health care news, Connie Hair reports that a “loophole” in the ObamaCare legislation “leads to double-digit premium increases.” Connie writes,

“It is a very big loophole in health reform,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) told the Times. Feinstein and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) are pushing legislation to expand federal and state authority to prevent insurance companies from boosting rates excessively, the L.A. Times reports.

First Democrats create a massive new entitlement program that doesn’t do the things they say it will do – like control health care costs or decrease deficit spending.  Then, as part of the design, Democrats want to pass even more regulatory legislation that will further expedite the collapse of the private insurance industry thus leading to single payer government health care and all of its rationing, waiting lines and skyrocketing costs.

That’s because this was never about cost or health care.  It’s about big government control over people’s wallets and their lives.

Read Connie’s entire article here.

Other unintended consequences?  The New York Times is reporting today that…

In a new report, the Congressional Research Service says the law may have significant unintended consequences for the “personal health insurance coverage” of senators, representatives and their staff members.

For example, it says, the law may “remove members of Congress and Congressional staff” from their current coverage, in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, before any alternatives are available.

I guess that’s what happens when you ram a bloated 2,700 page bill down the throats of the American people without even reading it first.  The Times raises the scary question: “If they did not know exactly what they were doing to themselves, did lawmakers who wrote and passed the bill fully grasp the details of how it would influence the lives of other Americans?”  Read the full story here.

Repeal is possible: Updated