[tobyhill]

Doctors will seek out states that don’t expand Medicaid because the reimbursement rate for Medicaid will be maybe 10%.

[Ron C.]

US doctors are leaving the country in droves - going to places where they can practice medicine without government interference.

[Jacquerie]

Don’t worry. There will soon be plenty of government educated and salaried doctors. They’ll be every bit as proficient as those in Cuba.

[Pollster1]

Physicians will be the second biggest losers from ObamaCare. Patients will be the biggest losers. I hope and pray that we will be able to repeal this horrible bill before the damage is inflicted on our country.

[CaptainAmiigaf]

Wrong..Doctors will NOT be the biggest losers under Obamacare. The biggest loser will be the cardiac emergency who finds there is NO Cardiologist to keep him alive. Or perhaps the auto accident casualty who discovers there is NO doctor in the now closed Emergency Room.
It may well be YOU, when your long term doctor has quit in disgust, and your new one (if you can find one) isn’t sharp enough to spot that little difference in you, so you now have 4 months to live.
OBAMACARE will make the actual practice of medicine not worth the financial cost, the time required and the not worth fighting the government.

[Pollster1]

USNS Mercy is a government hospital ship, one of the biggest and worst designed hospital ships in the history of the world. If ObamaCare is not repealed quickly, I imagine there will be a fleet of private hospital ships off the coasts of the USA, built for the task or modified from cruise ships, rather than converted from an unwanted supertanker. Hospital ships with a non-US flag will be immune from frivolous malpractice lawsuits, free of the unnecessary paperwork that doesn't improve care, and paid in cash by those with the financial means - probably costing far less for better care than we'll get for our tax dollars. I rather like the idea.

[cripplecreek]

[freeangel]

The AMA made a deal with the devil and soon we’ll be hearing how hot it is in hell.

[Sooth2222]

40% of US doctors are age 55 or older. Over 20% don't just accept Medicare, but actually qualify for Medicare.

I suppose they could hire health care provider "extenders".

(Any citizen of the Obamanation would surely be happy to have some doofus in a white coat who couldn't pass HS chemistry making life-or-death medical decision for him or her! After all, it's for the Greater Glory of the Obamanation!)

On a more serious note, this train wreck is going to be "interesting" to watch. I hope I don't get seriously sick before Obamacare explodes. And explode, it will.

[originalbuckeye]

I have been a laboratory technologist for nearly 40 years. I work for a large lab that has been complying with all the changes required by Obamacare. But I have friends who have been cut to half time work for a few reasons. First, their reimbursement rate has already been drastically cut. Second, preventative medicine is also being drastically cut, no matter what Obama says. I want to puke when he talks about ‘wellness exams and preventative medicine’ because he's lying. They are already being cut and the lapdog Media keeps printing the lies as truth. My friend's lab is even turning off the lights in rooms that aren't in use all the time. Anything to save money and stay open. Obamacare doesn't care about the patients. They just want the money. Most Pathologists with whom I have worked will retire, too. I do have a question though. If doctors salaries will be cut to the bone, who will pay for their medical school expenses? Will the taxpayers pay for students to choose medical school? Because, if the doctors aren't going to make a good salary in the profession, how will they ever be able to pay back their exorbitant medical school loans?

[bboop]

Here’s what I want to know. If the AMA represents only 15% of the doctors, where the @#$ were the other 85% of them who were getting screwed when this went down? I heard NOTHING from doctors: not in the doc’s office, not on blogs, not in emails circulating. You would have thought doctors loved Obamacare. I believe if they had spoken out en masse, the public would have been much encouraged to fight even harder, and more voices would have joined the fray?

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

“Doctors will be up loading information into a data bank”

Already happened to me. Our ER went to an electronic medical record system which is horrible. The old paper system took about three minutes to record the medical record giving me ample time to contemplate the testing and treatments for my ER patients. Now it is all I can do to click all the data into the EMR and my mind is not where it should be.

Believe it or not one must be thinking to be a good physician.

Trying to be a physician in a busy ER with a horrible EMR system is like trying to land a Lear jet and text your mistress and talk to your wife at the same time, while having a drink of Bourbon, and smoking a fine Cuban cigar.

With all that going on something is going to fall through the cracks.

[arthurus]

To the extent that they are restricted by obamacare the better paid more skillful doctors will retire or will move offshore. The number and quality of doctors will decline until standards for getting a medical license are relaxed. England lost its best physicians o retirement and to India and Thailand. Canadian doctors went overseas or south of the border. Some of the Caribbean countries have changed their laws to accommodate free market clinics and hospitals and practices anticipating obamacare or whatever the Republicans decide to replace it with. The Republican battle cry is "Repeal and Replace so socialized medicine is not going away. The Replacement will be more "fair" but will be only a little less socialized.

[RicocheT]

Back in the 1960s,70s 80S and up to the mid 1990s, the smartest kids were going to college to become medical doctors. They saw it as a career that allowed one to make a lot of money on their own terms.

Since then, it has changed and our smart kids want to be in finance and investment banking for similar reasons. They saw early that government was on the way to over-control health care and ultimately, absorb it.

We patients will be the ones getting lower levels of care and those who remain good caring doctors will be few.