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De-regulate the Medical Profession Essay

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De-regulate the medical profession. The government has to many regulations on who can do what in medicine. Someone who is a 3rd year medical student can perform surgery and medical task and a nurse with 30 years of experience can’t. We live in a county with more than 300 million people and only have 600,000 doctors, that’s 500 patients for every doctor. There are many potential students who can make it through medical school but cannot afford it, or a family crisis. Over 95% of forms are rejected and its true we want the most proficient team of medical students but in a health care crisis like we have we have to take our chances. Some may fear that this creates more medical accidents with lesser trained people but if you give people a …show more content…

I asked my doctor if he uses all the medical school training he got and he said that you need to know basic knowledge but most doesn’t really help know what your doing, it takes experience to really be good. For example, would you rather have someone who has 10 years of medical experience performing a surgery he or she has only done once of twice in all their years or someone with only a year of experience but specialized and well educated on that specific procedure? There should be levels in the system based of experience. Someone with 10 years of medical experience should be a level 3 doctor or nurse not like we have now were your either a doctor or a nurse. Each level will have sub levels of specialties so then the patient can choose who would be the best for them. Allow health insurance companies to sell across state lines. Possibly the biggest obstacle to lowering costs is that insurance companies are required to only sell policies in their own state. Getting rid of state boundaries would mainly increase competition. The high priced companies would have to close due to the low priced, well run companies. Less paperwork and more technologic dominant companies would come out first. A big part that would change is over-regulation in states would be eliminated. Over-regulated states like New York charge almost 3

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