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Shortage of doctors spreading throughout US

NEW YORK — Mary Berg is paying the price for a shortage of US doctors that by most accounts is about to get much worse.

After finding out in 2006 she had a rare and deadly gastrointestinal cancer, the 49-year-old mother of a teenage daughter found there were no doctors in Nevada who specialized in her type of tumor.

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Am I the only one who finds this story of waiting months and months for routine doctor's office appoinments to be familiar from tales heard about British and Canadian government health systems?

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You ain't seen nothin' yet!  Obamacare is going to put this problem on STEROIDS!  You have no idea what you voted for or what you are going to get, but you are going to get it!!  Literally, if Romney is not elected, some of you WILL die early!  Actuarial FACT!