For the List.
A lot of doctors close to retirement or financially sound will probably quit. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
And people thought there was a doctor shortage before. Many of those who practice the healing arts for a handsome living, and even those who are only eking out a bare existence with the skill set, may just decide to chuck it all and raise chickens, where there is not nearly as much paperwork or personalities to deal with, or depart from the territory once known as the “United States of America” altogether, going to a distant land where they may exercise their healing arts in an unfettered and useful manner.
No way to run a railroad.
And if the Current Regime, in its wisdom, simply points a finger at someone and says, “Make a doctor out of him (or her)”, there is by no means any certainty that the candidate will ever be much of a healer, or even very good at carrying out the instructions of how to dispose of medical treatment problems.
IMOW...we're being robbed!!
Just like teachers, doctors will soon ALL be government bought and paid for....by us!!
They will quit first.
The paperwork requires massive staffs and complicated record keeping and data storage.
Unlimited liability requires huge insurance premiums.
The Docs I know love their work and their patients. But they will not bankrupt themselves and their families.
Any doc over 55 will just retire.
Marc Siegel, M.D.,
How dare you! You labor and work efforts are for the state to direct and not your own. It is the right of the people to have health services provided by you and your brethren regardless of your willingness to comply. Refusal to comply will result in your license being revoked. There is an IRS audit in your near future for your insolence. /sarc
Bookmark.
We really are moving towards a soviet union here where central planners decide what occupation a person will become - whether they are skilled at it or not.
And once assigned, you cannot refuse to serve.
-PJ
Slavery is alive and well in 21st Century America.
This should go a long way to drive more doctors out of the profession. When are we going to get education reform and stick it to the “perfessors”? It’s time they go through the Marxist BS that medical professionals are going through.
Captain Louis Rennault remains shocked, SHOCKED, at this potential development.
Involuntary servitude prohibited by 13th Amendment. Cases were going to Supreme Court when they halted the military draft. Licensing may require Docs to perform a percentage of “pro bono publico” work BUT cannot force them to accept a small portion of their going rate (paltry Medicaid/Medicare reimbursements) without running afoul of the Constitution.
13th Amendment:
“Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
- See more at: http://constitution.laws.com/13th-amendment#sthash.Wo5LJYm8.dpuf
Just fyi,
Not all doctors share this view.
Some doctors if not many are fully on-board with Obamacare, and the socialized medicine mentality.
Case in point... my own family has encountered doctors who will NOT see us presumably because we are self pay.
They would apparently rather take what they can get from insurance providers rather than risk not getting paid at all from the individual’s pocket.
Most health care professionals I’ve met are very benevolent people... even the ones who are misguided by Obama’s agenda.
I guess what many of them fail to understand is the benefits of a free market system which on the surface may appear to them as selfish in nature. As a result they may also be missing the underlying principle that benevolence is not something which can be forced.
A little Karma for doctors?
Might be wise to be out of the country when the same government criminalizes quitting.
I’ll bet any amount of money this doctor voted for obama.
Repeal or revolution.
Wow! He adds a lot of details I knew nothing about but it is exactly what I’ve been saying since before 0bamaCare became law in ‘09. Doctors will be unable to comply with the ACA and remain in business. The costs for them will exceed their income. It’s not just lower reimbursements it’s added office expenses to comply with mountains of new regulations.
It won’t be all doctors. Just those who have student loans out to the government. They will become wards of DHHS.