Rather than let the market work its magic, Congress feels that it needs to craft legislation that supposedly will help increase the supply of primary care doctors.
A handful of Democratic senators are pushing to change pending health-care legislation so that it would help increase the country's stock of primary-care doctors, heeding warnings that the bill may exacerbate the difficulty some Americans already have in finding a doctor.
More than 30 million Americans would get health insurance under the health-care overhaul that passed through the House and a similar bill moving forward in the Senate. If that does indeed happen, many previously uninsured people who haven't had a regular doctor before will need a primary-care physician. Demand would also likely increase for nurse practitioners and general surgeons.
Here's a thought: how about getting their mitts out of the healthcare industry? I realize that's a pipe dream, but its a pipe dream that needs to be noted.