Medical Society Files Lawsuit to Block Health Care Overhaul(Nearly 5,000 American Physicians)

FOXNEWS.com ^ | March 30, 2010 | FOXNEWS.com

[Son House]

With the president's ink barely dry on the health care overhaul's final fixes, a group of nearly 5,000 American physicians is filing suit to stop the mammoth new law dead in its tracks.

"I think this bill that passed threatens not only to destroy our freedom in medicine but to bankrupt the country," said Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

The Arizona-based medical coalition filed suit on March 26, arguing that congressional reforms illegally coerce individuals into buying insurance from private companies.

Starting in 2014, anyone who chooses not to buy health insurance faces a small federal penalty, but in 2016 the fine jumps to $695 a year per person or 2.5 percent of overall income, whichever is greater. That means that anyone earning more than $27,800 would be subject to increasing penalties, with a maximum fine of $2,085 per family.

...Insurers "will have millions of new, unwilling customers that they wouldn't have gotten," said Orient, an internist based in Tuscon. "They're counting on getting all this new money."

Though legal challenges to the new law are popping up nationwide, the conservative-leaning AAPS is the only medical society to file suit against the health care package. The American Medical Association, the largest physicians' group in the U.S., supported the health care overhaul and lobbied on its behalf.

Orient says she hopes more groups will join her suit, and predicts a shortage of doctors as the medical community adjusts to the new law.

"We need to get back to the old-fashioned style of medicine where doctors worked for their patients and patients paid their doctors," she said.

[Son House]

"threatens not only to destroy our freedom in medicine but to bankrupt the country,"

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I keep thinking this is the sloppiest written bill in history, but it may be the contents, that the slop is.

[stevem]

to bankrupt the country

This is, I think, the important part of the plan.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Are these the same evil doctors that amputate feet and cut out tonsils just for profit? Obambi said so, so it must be true. /s

[Incorrigible]

Bump

[concerned about politics]

"We need to get back to the old-fashioned style of medicine where doctors worked for their patients and patients paid their doctors," she said.

That's referred to as "freedom." Oboma doesn't believe in it.

[mtntop3]

It is not understandable that insurance companies should be forced to accept persons with known pre-existing conditions—in effect requiring the companies to put themselves out of business.

If the U. S. government force a business to take measures that can be reasonably interpreted as leading directly to the demise of the company, then it can argue it can take measures against individual citizens that will lead directly to their demise.

[TChris]

...in effect requiring the companies to put themselves out of business.

But that's exactly the plan!

Once private insurers are out of business, our benevolent Uncle Sam will gladly come to the rescue as the sole source of health insurance.

If a plan covers pre-existing conditions, it's no longer insurance. It's just plain wealth-transfer again.

(If it seems like you've heard this song before, you have.)

[HiTech RedNeck]

Calling respiratory therapy to slam a pillow over the face of this monster.