my connection with the tea party

[kandrathe]

Okay. So it's socialized medicine, re-branded as something more palatable to Americans?

Fine by me.

Sort of. It wouldn't have the same entrenched bureaucracy feeling since the participants would be temporary, and not permanent employees. I would look at it more like a government run temporary staffing organization (e.g. Accountemps), where instead of the workers being cost plus 10%, they would be cost minus 10%. Of course, the long term social goal would be more than just providing affordable care, it would be to increase the number of people in the profession to reduce the overall costs and bring physician salaries more in line with other similarly skilled professionals.

A good indicator of what the government should be providing home grown incentive's would be the professions for which they authorize H1B visas.