[buckalfa]

Only a matter of time before medical providers will be required by law, regulation, or fiat to opt in. Their option will be not to practice within the US. Primary healthcare will be delivered by mid level providers and paramedics in the not to distant future.

[Sacajaweau]

The doctors will all be Government doctors...hence, death will come on command.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I wouldn’t be surprised to see U.S. doctors establish clinics in The Bahamas, Panama, Costa Rica, Bermude, and at various locations throughout the Caribbean.

[tanknetter]

Look at the increase in things like nurse practitioners and “little clinics” in grocery stores and pharmacies.

Which are fine for things like strep tests, writing antibiotic prescripts for ear infections, doling out flu shots and the like. But not so much for correctly diagnosing more serious ailments that happen to have similar symptoms to the common cold.

[BillM]

I Canada it took about 14 years to get to a one payer system. The Canada Health Act enslaved the doctors!

[Little Ray]

I see “border clinics” on the Mexican side of the border!

[Osage Orange]

Their option will be not to practice within the US. Primary healthcare will be delivered by mid level providers/i>

Already happening........

[riverdawg]

“Primary healthcare will be delivered by mid level providers and paramedics in the not to distant future.”

That's already true for routine care at many clinics, doctors’ offices, and HMOs. The nurses, nurse practitioners, and PCs do most of the clinical workups and examinations. Mrs riverdawg insists on seeing her dermatologist during an appointment, and that often adds 30 minutes to her wait time.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

No. There will be doctors. They studied human anatomy on a dog in a thatched hut in Bangladesh. They know what sound the Poobaaa bird makes as it flies across the Ganges. They are familiar with the sound made by one hand when it claps. They will work wonders.