How many medical students these days graduate as General Practitioners?

[panader0]

Very few I would bet. There's no money in being anything but a specialist. The era of the small town doctor who sets bones and sews stitches and gives physicals is over. The man/woman with a black bag who once came to your house to treat you is gone. It's all about money/greed now. Doctors say they need huge sums because of lawsuits. I don't buy that. Doctors say they need huge sums because of their education costs. I don't buy that either. As HamdenRice pointed out in an earlier post, doctors were vastly more affordable in the sixties (adjusted for inflation) They have become like the CEOs of large corporations in the way they make so much more money than the masses.
In the army, there are Corpsmen who do all kinds of medical procedures. Army doctors are not paid more than the scale of their rank. Why can there not be, in addition to a public option on insurance, a public option on doctors? They would be paid by the government to be general practitioners, and could deal with a huge amount of the health care load. People who needed a specialist could go to one on a public insurance option. How about tax breaks for doctors who do pro bono work?
A friend of mine had to quit working to qualify for AHCESS, the Arizona welfare medical benefits. He was bounced back and forth from doctor to doctor in a "good buddy" system, each one doing superfluous tests, each one overbilling the government.
More than the health insurance industry needs fixing.

[BolivarianHero]

1. rofl...

If they're making exponentially more than living wage in countries with "socialist" health care such as Canada, education costs are easy to take care of, especially when amortized over many years. Furthermore, all they need is decent insurance, which they can easily afford, to protect themselves from malpractice.

[janx]

4. "Decent insurance" ? n/t

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. None graduate as GPs, they graduate as MDs, and specialize after they complete their internships

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

3. I used to work for an Army doctor he got paid substantially more than others his rank.