This is my favorite:
“3) Doctors will revolt... What will they do? Become accountants?”
HAHA! We got you MDs! You can’t quit because you HAVE NO CHOICE!
When others can claim the fruits of your labor, you are nothing but a slave or a share cropper.
The author is not thinking about the long term or even the medium term.
Doctors today are not going to quit immediately, but a lot of them are going to retire early AND THEN, the crunch will come within a generation.
Smart Young people will begin to ask themselves whether it will be worth all the hours and sacrifice and money going to medical school only to be essentially a ward of the Federal government. AND THEN ... SUPPLY will be a problem.
It has already happened in the UK and Canada, you can bet your bottom dollar it wil happen here.
The good news will be for FOREIGN DOCTORS from such places as India and the Philippines ( both English speaking countries ), who will be willing to pick up the slack. We already are importing nurses (both male and female ) from overseas at a fast rate.
What has happened to the IT industry will essentially happen here within a generation IF Obamacare is the norm.
I halfway expect some enterprising country to start trying to entice American doctors with some sort of incentives.
They can just refuse to take anyone on medicare, medicaid, or insurance. And operate on a cash only basis.