[fatnotlazy]

My cardiologist is retiring once Obamacare takes full effect. My kidney doctor is exploring the possibility of not accepting new Medicare patients. The AMA may have endorsed Obamacare, but I know several doctors who are adamantly opposed to it. They know that the reimbursements they will receive under Obamacare won't compensate them nearly enough for all the aggravation the law will give them, not to mention the need to huge additional staff to handle all the paperwork. And they don't like the idea of some governmental bureaucrat, possibly with no medical knowledge, telling them how or if to treat a patient.

So despite Obama’s claims that you can see any doctor you wish, the fact is that there will be fewer doctors to choose from. Many private practices will close, to be replaced by some “clinic” where you will see a doctor who knows nothing about you and might not even speak English. That is, IF you get to see a doctor. It could be that you will be treated by a nurse practitioner or perhaps someone with little more than paramedic training. Not knocking either profession, but particularly for major issues, the results of being treated by anyone with no medical degree could be fatal.

The Obama administration has lied about this monstrosity from the beginning. Unfortunately, his followers won't know that till they actually need health care. Then it may be too late.

[DeFault User]

Some practices have sold themselves to hospitals to help cover the paperwork and stabilize their income. There has been a tremendous increase in hospital controlled practices but the physician still has to sit there typing the information into the computer. They can fall under the hospital’s professional liability and eliminate that worry but they will still be under the thumb of the government and the hospital.

[markman46]

there are going to be many more “foreign” DR’s who make much more $$ here taking medicare/medicaid patient then they could ever make at home

[Mears]

bfl