I know two doctors who have already left the profession, rather than put up with the Federal meddling in their practices.
I have often wondered what do doctors who quit and have debt do for a living? Real estate, insurance?
The Feds took over the Medical Laboratories in 1988. It was called CLIA, the Congressional Laboratories Improvement Act. They put in all sorts of very expensive regulations, and included how much work was the recommended ‘ceiling’ in a 24 hour period. You may have guessed the ‘ceiling’ became the quota. Far more work than I had ever been able to do for a ‘day’s work for a day’s pay’. Their regulations are destroying my field. I retired early as I could no longer stand the constant manipulation of the techs. Government oversight of my field has NOT lead to better laboratory results. Government oversight of all medical care will be a disaster. I don’t blame the docs for retiring. They never wanted to be under the constraints of a Government who reveres the bottom fiscal line as paramount.
I’m up to eight docs who quit that I know.
You can tell a big difference between the attitudes and ethics of the residents versus their older mentors. The vestiges of America’s Western medicine is on the way out. Obama sped it along.