I'm perfectly aware of the whole doctor/hospital bill thing.
I wasn't talking about bills, though. Doctors will go underground to avoid the gov't regulations/fees/etc.
Doctors who are retiring are remembering a lifetime of career stress brought on by people who resented the "rich doctor" and spitefully enjoyed the misery that the malpractice situation brought to doctors' families.
Now they are picturing the families of lawyers and plaintiffs and spiteful public who won't have the doctor to kick around anymore...and won't have medical care, period. Kidney stone? Pain? Not my problem.
Hey, you lawyers who sued OBs out of business....go squat in the pasture like Senator Squaw Warren to have your babies. No epidurals for YOU.