Mchenry. They would have to get democrats to go along with that. That gets us into the fantasy politics deal of republicans negotiating with democrats to come up with a speaker. I wish that would happen. Maybe well get to that point, we wont get to that point today but i think its unlikely. If youre jordan, brendan saids hes not one to negotiate, historically i think thats true. Maybe on the cusp p of the speaker ship that changes. He can cut one short term deal about the Budget Agreement get these institutional old guard republicans on board and i think well go back to the old firebreathing jim jordan after that deal is done. But that seems to me to be the path for him if theres a path at all. These guys might not be able to come up with 217 votes. And i think thats very realistic about where were at. Want to bring in former republican governor of ohio john kasich. If my math is right, you served 18 years in the house, you know how things work. I do. Tell us what youre watching for an
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whether it s nurse practitioner, a doctor, what do you think is the impact? well, it s hard to say with the long term effect will be on people s interests to go into health care but what we ve seen in our own medical schools is we ve had record numbers of applications. and our medical schools, because of the physician shortage, have gotten to record capacity. the challenge now is we may not have enough residency training programs, graduate training that all physicians need in their various specialties to practice independently to accommodate all the u.s. graduates and i think that s where folks may get discouraged. jenna: is that because simply these hospitals cannot accept more residents or why is there not a place for these medical graduates to go? so the challenge, the real problem that s driven the shortage of physicians has been since the balance budget act of 1997, congress limited medicare s approach of sharing
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in health care reform had never been passed. what will happen to millions of patients? professor of medicine. 32 million americans who are uninsured. president obama passed health care reform. there will be 32 million americans that are out there looking for new doctors, what will they find in. you should add 36 million joining the medicare ranks in the next decade. here is what they will find. the association of american medical colleges predicts we re going to be 90,000 doctors short over the next decade, half of them primary care. half of them specialists and surgeons. so we got it across the board. all of this is because 1997 the balance budget act under clinton we re going to have a doctor surplus and they froze the
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