To the Editor:
I would like to share with you a suggestion that would be financially sound, and at the same time acceptable and supported by the Republicans, Democrats and the public as well.
My suggestion involves the use and redirecting of the unexpended “stimulus funds” and repayments of loans already made. Most people recognize the decrease in the ranks of the practicing doctors resulting from the rising costs caused by the failure to enact tort reform and malpractice insurance. In addition, the above factors have given rise to the decrease in the number of individuals interested in filling those ranks.
The millions of dollars expended to implement and fund Obamacare including advertisements and the $60 million for navigators to canvas the public to interpret and explain the details of a 2,000-page bill that no one, including the members of Congress understand and can explain. Those funds could be better committed to:
A. Pick up the student loans for graduating doctors in an amount not to exceed $250,000 in exchange for a commitment of those recipients to serve for five years in a family practice or
B. Guarantee the income of graduating doctors without student loans, in the amount of approximately $50,000 a year for five years in exchange for the same commitment.
Such a plan would relieve the pressure and an increase demand for doctors necessary to meet the needs of an aging population as well as the demand increase by virtue of the demand on family type practices caused by limitation of Obamacare.
J.S. CAFIERO, former Senator, District 1
Wildwood
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