Is universal healthcare making some people think twice about a career in medicine?

<p>I see nothing wrong with wanting to make sure the future of your profession is something that you’d be happy with. If it meant taking a year or two off from applying to wait and see exactly where we’re headed, then that’s better to me than leaping into it and then later deciding you hate it because of all the changes.</p>

<p>I simply don’t understand, some one please inform me. If everyone constantly says “NO ONE KNOWS” “IT"S NOT CERTAIN YET” then how on earth are democrats trying to pass the bill? It doesn’t make sense? What the hell does the bill say?</p>

<p>They’re not trying to pass it yet. There is no bill at this time. There is a very incomplete proposal put together by some of the leading Democrats in the House; the Senate and the President have yet to release even tentative proposals.</p>

<p>So far, the most complete elaboration of President Obama’s plans is from the Presidential debates against Senator McCain. Since there’s no way he’s going to get all of that, it remains to be seen which pieces he’s going to push for. Besides, even that was ridiculously incomplete.</p>

<p>I want to become a doctor, and the prospect of being a government employee does not tempt me whatsoever.</p>

<p>There is no plan whatsoever that would make any doctor a government employee. Of course, if you’re an academic doctor for a state school, you already indirectly work for the government. However, the government is not nationalizing anything. In fact, even in single-payer countries such as Canada, the government simply pays for health care, (hence the term single-payer) but does not actually provide it.</p>