@ miguel cervantes: My clumsy phrasing, miggy. Didn't think that you meant to focus on anybody. I was trying to suggest that other folks along the rightwing are focusing, and not in a real nice way.
@ miguel cervantes: and you don't have to remind me that the Jews ran organized crime in the Bronx in the early 20s. Old Grampa Fuster met Dutch Schultz right soon after getting here from Russia.
But my girl seems to be a little over the top and not too clear on understanding that poor people are risking their lives to sneak into this country because they want to be part of it. Instead she sounds like she thinks that they're vampires bent on destroying America.
Sounds sorta like what the native Californians were said to say and think about them dirty, poor, desperate, illiterate Okies of 75 years back.
@ miguel cervantes:
According to some folks, we're currently losing everything from Texas to California.
Californians are a lot more worried about illegals who commit homicides and flee to Mexico than they are about Meg Whitman and her maid. They’re more concerned about the illegals driving around uninsured, running into them, destroying their property, and injuring their children. They’re considerably more concerned about the illegals swelling the welfare rolls and showing up for an ever-growing list of free medical benefits. They’re very, very concerned about the illegals in the drug trade turning parts of Los Angeles into a war zone – a pattern that falls hardest on the poor of every ethnic background – and the illegals-fueled spread of Latino gangs into the suburbs.
Now, I know even less about California than I do about the US, but I find it hard to believe that it's people sneaking up from south of the border that are coming here because it's their dream to be career criminals.
Doesn't seem to fit with the way immigration into this country has gone.
I do't know Ed Morrissey from a hole in a hot air balloon so I don't know if he's being conveniently obtuse or if he's simply as simple as some of the other souls on the site, but the reporting in Modern Healthcare makes it clear that the shortage, even increased by that 50%, isn't any big whoop.
To ensure an adequate physician workforce, Congress needs to lift a 1997 freeze on Medicare supported residency positions, the AAMC recommended.
On the other hand, maybe Morrissey isn't really comfortable with the crud he's trying to peddle here.
He's updated his post and now offers ....
They’re blaming me for blaming it on ObamaCare, but the very first line in the Reuters report lays the blame on ObamaCare.
... a disclaimer saying that Ed Morrissey doesn't control what Ed Morrissey puts in his posts.
@ CK MacLeod:
The shortage of MDs in the report is largely due to the fact that a great number of them, being "boomers", are set to retire... at the same time that the boomers are going to require extra care.
It's not really hard to head off the shortfall, as there are many more qualified candidates for medical school than there are places. It's not ultra-difficult to increase enrollments and schools.
@ miguel cervantes: expanding the pool of doctors has been pretty well resisted by the AMA, miggy. that "artificial" constriction of supply might also help explain why US doctors make so much more money than doctors elsewhere.
@ miguel cervantes: My clumsy phrasing, miggy. Didn't think that you meant to focus on anybody. I was trying to suggest that other folks along the rightwing are focusing, and not in a real nice way.
The "problem" is always blown out of proportion.
@ CK MacLeod:
Any criminals in California what don't speak Spanish only or is Dyer right?
@ miguel cervantes: and you don't have to remind me that the Jews ran organized crime in the Bronx in the early 20s. Old Grampa Fuster met Dutch Schultz right soon after getting here from Russia.
But my girl seems to be a little over the top and not too clear on understanding that poor people are risking their lives to sneak into this country because they want to be part of it. Instead she sounds like she thinks that they're vampires bent on destroying America.
Sounds sorta like what the native Californians were said to say and think about them dirty, poor, desperate, illiterate Okies of 75 years back.
@ miguel cervantes:
According to some folks, we're currently losing everything from Texas to California.
Now, I know even less about California than I do about the US, but I find it hard to believe that it's people sneaking up from south of the border that are coming here because it's their dream to be career criminals.
Doesn't seem to fit with the way immigration into this country has gone.
Well, I'm awfully sweet on her, fersure, but sometimes it sounds like she's seeing Obama's Army marching with General Santa Anna.
I just bet she looks super in a coonskin cap.
J.E. Dyer
one of my favorite comments from the thread.
JED has a pretty fine one as well.
I do't know Ed Morrissey from a hole in a hot air balloon so I don't know if he's being conveniently obtuse or if he's simply as simple as some of the other souls on the site, but the reporting in Modern Healthcare makes it clear that the shortage, even increased by that 50%, isn't any big whoop.
On the other hand, maybe Morrissey isn't really comfortable with the crud he's trying to peddle here.
He's updated his post and now offers ....
... a disclaimer saying that Ed Morrissey doesn't control what Ed Morrissey puts in his posts.
@ CK MacLeod:
The shortage of MDs in the report is largely due to the fact that a great number of them, being "boomers", are set to retire... at the same time that the boomers are going to require extra care.
It's not really hard to head off the shortfall, as there are many more qualified candidates for medical school than there are places. It's not ultra-difficult to increase enrollments and schools.
@ miguel cervantes: expanding the pool of doctors has been pretty well resisted by the AMA, miggy. that "artificial" constriction of supply might also help explain why US doctors make so much more money than doctors elsewhere.
@ George Jochnowitz: Yeah, but what happens if suddenly poor people and non-Americans in the country are able to seek medical assistance?