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Examiner Editorial: Obamacare will end up forcing doctors to take patients
The Washington Examiner ^ | December 6, 2013

Posted on 12/09/2013 8:00:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Just as cars can’t go anywhere without drivers and employees can’t work without bosses, health care doesn’t happen when there are no doctors around. And when an estimated 70 percent of the doctors in the nation’s deepest-blue state are rebelling against Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act is forcing a critical decision: America will have to junk Obamacare and go back to square one on health insurance reform, or trash the last vestige of private health care in this country by forcing doctors to do the government’s bidding.

The rebellion among California physicians was detailed earlier this week by Washington Examiner senior investigative reporter Richard Pollock. “Independent insurance brokers who work with both insurance companies and doctor networks estimate that about 70 percent of California's 104,000 licensed doctors are boycotting the exchange,” Pollock wrote. The president and speaker of the legislative body of the California Medical Association -- the Golden State chapter of the Obamacare-endorsing American Medical Association -- both confirmed to Pollock that the rebellion is widespread and intensely felt.

California's doctor rebellion isn't unique. Pollock previously reported comparable situations at 15 other locations around the country. Not only are thousands of doctors saying no to Obamacare, so are major health insurance providers, including United Healthcare, Aetna and Cigna, as well as some of the nation's most famous hospitals....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: aca; compulsion; medicine; obamacare; obamacaredoctors; physicians; socialists; socializedmedicine
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To: babygene

I thank God everyday that when I turned 52 I was diagnosed with AVN, had hip reconstruction then had a bad knee done too. They would have let me die with ACA Obamacare! Thank you for your service to all of us. There are many patients who are grateful!


81 posted on 12/10/2013 2:24:21 AM PST by poobear (Socialism in the minds of the elites, is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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To: ilgipper

There’s going to be an open revolt in this country.

Don’t think so. There are too many people comfortable in their own world, willing to go along to get along.
There has been an intense assault on liberties for the last 5 years that should have awakened the masses but unfortunately crickets are all we hear.


82 posted on 12/10/2013 2:29:39 AM PST by lucky american (The Democrats will follow the big "D"even if it means going over a cliff.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.healio.com/orthopedics/business-of-orthopedics/news/print/orthopedics-today/%7B409ff8ee-27f5-4d9f-a773-d6520d54a565%7D/ama-announces-support-of-affordable-care-act-insurance-exchange-policies

“AMA announces support of Affordable Care Act insurance exchange policies”
- Orthopedics Today, December 2011

It’s a shame the AMA is a branch of the Dem party and not actually looking our for doctors or for our health.


83 posted on 12/10/2013 3:05:35 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve been wondering when someone would bring this up. It’s always appeared to be the logical end for dissenting doctors. They will draft them, just like the military.


84 posted on 12/10/2013 3:09:07 AM PST by Right Wing Assault
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

enterprising Americans are much smarter than obama’s regime and they will figure out a way not to be forced into servitude

I predict that within 10 years most of the “doctors” treating obamacare patients will be from the 3rd world...and our best doctors may be working in elite private clinics and hospitals incorporated abroad, perhaps even in China


85 posted on 12/10/2013 4:29:49 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: bigbob
"On the other hand, there are probably going to be some very nice sunny islands that have a very high doctor-patient ratio."

Or how about off-shore hospital-cruise-ships, sort of like the casinos use?

86 posted on 12/10/2013 4:41:31 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: cajungirl
I'm not aware of any demonization of doctors (except by med-mal attorneys and their clients, and those who resent high earners, of course), they are still among the most respected of professions, at least by me. Still, they should have spoken up when they saw what was coming. I realize the AMA does not speak for most doctors, that was my point. Most Americans are not aware of that, though. The AMA endorsed (or at least did not oppose in any way) the ACA so a lot of Americans assumed that their personal physician was for it.

It isn't too late. Doctors could still make a huge difference in killing this monster. But they have to be heard.

87 posted on 12/10/2013 6:11:51 AM PST by clintonh8r (Don't twerk me, Bro!)
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To: ilgipper

The American Holocaust designed by RATs.


88 posted on 12/10/2013 6:28:54 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: babygene
Older, wiser physicians may be financially able to retire, but the younger doctors who have not paid for their homes, have to send children to college, have been locked in by numerous debts financially cannot afford to not get a paycheck. So physicians, as a whole, cannot be expected to walk away from their jobs, just like any other profession. I am one who got out a few years ago. Here in my hometown of about 35,000 2 orthopedist, 1 ObGyn, 3 general surgeons, and numerous GP's are exiting. It will impose a hardship on themselves and patients in town. Believe me, we are getting out as soon as possible. I do look for the government to bring in physicians from India, Pakistan. Look for them to try to flood the country with foreign doctors.

This ACA will bring more mystery on the Amerians than war. People are already being programmed to think, like a a veterinarian or a NAZI to come to believe that "they will be doing a family member a favor" by consenting to destroy them. Obama himself, has said, "Rather than allowing Grandma to go through an operation, just give her a pill and send her home to die." It is happening now, and the American people are taking a dose of that moral relativism, day, by day, by day.

89 posted on 12/10/2013 8:33:43 AM PST by Texas Songwriter
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To: bigbob

One country in Europe (Luxembourg?) actually drafted doctors into the army when they rebelled. That’s another option that might happen here.


90 posted on 12/10/2013 8:39:03 AM PST by Gluteus Maximus
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To: Excellence
You could move to my small hometown and have 100% Indian Md’s (2).
91 posted on 12/10/2013 10:33:12 PM PST by tdscpa
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To: poobear
I am thankful I had my heart problem in 2008 BO (before owe-bamacare), and BCBS bought me this nice $70m pacemaker/defibrillator.

Unfortunately, it is only good for about another five years. Wonder if owe-bamacare will buy me a new one?

92 posted on 12/10/2013 10:46:37 PM PST by tdscpa
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