<p>"I actually had two thoughts in that post - one the looming doctor shortage that has been discussed for years, not just because of ACA. It isn’t that medical schools aren’t getting enough applicants. It is that there aren’t enough medical schools to train how many we will need in the coming years.</p>
<p>The link I provided discussed how some doctors feel like it was a mistake to go into their profession, in the first place."</p>
<p>I have no idea if there is going to be a massive shortage in the future but since population growth in the US is 0.7% I don’t see it - even with the addition of 30 or so million more who will have insurance. </p>
<p>As for doctors wishing the didn’t go into medicine - it doesn’t seem to be stopping anyone now from deciding not to go into the field. I also haven’t heard of doctors upping and quitting because of ACA - which was one of the talking points a few years back. </p>
<p>Hanna, so happy for you! Yesterday I heard some blow hard who was saying ACA would decimate entrepreneurship because who would start a business because they would have to pay for medical ins. for their employees. I just shook my head. </p>
<p>“I just don’t get the huge difference for Wyoming.”</p>
<p>Those states only have one or two insurers on their exchanges so they have no competition. I don’t know why so few insurers don’t want to do business in those states, but it’s one reason, imo, there should have been a public option. </p>
<p>“This implementation is going to be a mess for people in the loopholes, like the people who should now qualify for Medicaid, but if their state did not approve expansion, they don’t get Medicaid and don’t get subsidies.”</p>
<p>I believe people who already qualify for medicaid will still get medicaid in all states. It’s the people who are just above that income level but below the income qualification to purchase on the exchange who will get screwed in the states which have refused to expand medicaid. Perhaps people in those states need to organize and vote out the politicians who have created this situation.</p>