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I'm sure physicians would be able to not comply, but they may end up forfeiting the ability to accept federally funded health benefits.

Many doctors are setting up cash only practices. They don't accept any sort of insurance. That seems like the way to handle this situation. Of course, hospitals and their staffs are another matter.

My wife was a doctor of pharmacy before she passed away three years ago. She was not about to violate the Hippocratic Oath she took to give out drugs that would cause an abortion and violate her religious convictions based on the whim of whatever was in the White Hut.

With her being as stubborn as I am, I suspected it could come to a news headline about this concerning her. I guess that was not to be.

98% of American Doctors take some kind of oath, most either the Hippocratic or the Geneva Declaration. The Hippocratic says:
I will respect the secrets that are confided in me, even after the patient has died;

The Geneva Declaration says,
What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

It seems to me Obama is forcing the entire US physician community to violate their oath:
If I fulfill this path and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot. (Geneva Declaration)