"In response to the hiring problems, the state is likely to be forced to increase salaries, perhaps sharply. Robert Sillen, who was appointed earlier this year by a federal judge as receiver for the prison health care system, just announced that he is raising salaries as much as 30 percent to fill vacancies in prison clinics, and that is likely to force the Department of Mental Health to follow suit just to stay even.
Gary Robinson, executive director of the union representing doctors in prisons and state hospitals, said that in his view salaries will have to go from a base level of close to $150,000 per year to at least $200,000 per year to bring qualified doctors to relatively remote spots such as Coalinga.
In an interview, Sillen said he might have to do more than increase salaries. He said many professionals simply do not want to leave urban areas and move to small, remote towns. As a result, he is contemplating having the state pay to create air shuttles for some health professionals, allowing them to live in Los Angeles or the Bay Area and fly to their jobs in places like Coalinga."
Two hundred thousand per year? Rock star treatment by being ferried into Coalinga? Why does this problem exist? This problem exists because the AMA, through its nefarious member, the CME, imposes a severe restriction on the domestic production of allopathic physicians. The result of this is obvious. With an increasing demand for healthcare services and a very limited supply of those that can legally provide them, the compensation rates for the latter are exaggerated out of proportion. This is a system that the Robber Barons of yesteryear can only envy. Not only is there a legal monopoly for the allopaths, but the idiot sheeple support it. The solution to the problem is relatively simple. Instead of wasting hundreds of millions of dollars to enrich these monopolistic allopathic criminals, each state should open its own training facilities. Such facilities would require no coupling with any research institution (we are supposed to be training providers to provide basic healthcare services using proven methods). The curriculum requirements should be a hands on approach such that providers can be quickly developed instead of the requirements pushed forth by the AMA and the CME, which only serve to restrict supply. Furthermore, the providers should only be allowed to obtain licensure in their state of training with no comity. By flooding the market with new providers the cost of care would decrease and the access to care would improve as providers, having to fight for patients, would have to service communities and populations that they currently give the middle finger to. It is about time the members of the various state legislators opened their eyes to this ongoing extortion and blackmail and instead of coddling those conducting the same, revamped the entire system to serve the populace. The type of behavior exhibited by the allopaths would be soundly condemned if it were exhibited by the oil and gas companies. The same should hold true here.
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