On Feb 11, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Jared Earle wrote: > On 11 Feb 2009, at 15:33, Jared Earle wrote: >> Now read it looking at a map. I suppose that would be the equivalent >> of a remote alaskan island wondering where the nearest post office >> is and complaining it wasn't in walking distance. > > > Here's another article about the same statistics: > http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1004623?UserKey= > > They've correctly attributed it to a staffing issue. There are simply > no dentists willing to live in the cold remote boondocks. > > How would private medicine deal with this? Make them pay? Make them > travel? Force dentists to relocate?
That would be the government solution. Alaska is a good example, I'm familiar with 1 of their, i guess we would call it a county, because of a business relationship. It the size of West Virginia and only has 50k people. There are two EMS services and three doctors. They solve the problem by 1) pay the doctor very well for the area. (they are the richest folks there) 2) forgive medical loans at a certain percentage per year for each year they live there. 3) one I kind of wonder about.. They drop the internship and residency requirements so a 4 year medical degree is all you need, not the additional 4 years of experience. So it can be done by simply making it worth while. =c= _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
