kane

Interestingly enough that article has people claiming that fewer and fewer people are going to school to be doctors, yet this study done by the Association of American Medical Colleges shows, "Combined first-year M.D. and D.O. enrollment in 2015-16 is projected to be 26,403, 35 percent above 2002-03."

So in reality the number of people enrolling in school to be doctors appears to be on the rise.

According to their study they felt we would need an increase in new doctors of about 30% by the year 2015. At the current rate of growth they will hit that number around 2017.

Being a doctor is not a money grab. While there are some people that choose the field because of the potential earnings, many of them choose the field because they want to help people. They like the money, and they deserve the money, but you don't dedicate over a decade of your life to school, potentially a huge amount of debt, and an enormous amount of stress just because you want to earn some good money. If money were the main motivator a person could go to significantly less school and likely get into a career where they could make a similar amount of money. According to this the average family practitioner makes about $175K per year. The guy that lives across the street from me is a foreman for a industrial electrician contractor and he made about $135K last year with two years of schooling under his belt.

Sorry, but I just to buy it when I hear people say that Obamacare is going to drive people away from the medical field. At this point it is all speculation.