83% of (American) Doctors Have Considered Quitting Over Obamacare. Who Wouldn't?
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From the "Doctor Patient Medical Association, a non-partisan association of doctors and patients:
....."The survey found that the majority have thought about bailing out of their careers over the legislation, which was upheld last month by the Supreme Court"......
......"The DPMA found that many doctors do not believe the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will lead to better access to medical care for the majority of Americans.......“Doctors clearly understand what Washington does not — that a piece of paper that says you are ‘covered’ by insurance or ‘enrolled’ in Medicare or Medicaid does not translate to actual medical care when doctors can’t afford to see patients at the lowball payments [and patients have to jump through government hoops!]"......
We are facing the destruction of "health care as we have known it!"
This is serious stuff, deadly serious maybe as the politicial class, who have destroyed everything else they have touched are on the precipice of turning the best healthcare system in the world into........the local DMV office!
We deserve it as we are letting them do this to us!
What will happen is that we will go back to the medical system of my youth where many doctors will run one-man offices out of their home, seeing patients for reasonable fees......on a cash basis. Growing up in the 1950's I remember a time when this practice was common. The doctors will go into barter and trade just like a lot of other American citizens have and the government can go to wherever it is going.
WC
For a fact-check on the data behind this so-called study go to Slate.com.
Don't kid yourself, most physicians won't quit over Obamacare except for the older ones who are close to retirement. Many physicians are in debt due to school loans for many years and don't have the luxury of quitting. Others will be temporarily sheltered from some aspects of Obamacare as employees and may not realize its full impact for a year or more.
Worse, a significant minority of physicians are 'useful idiots' who eagerly await the ACA changes, thinking that much of the current problems are due to waste or profit taking that will be correctable with enough government control over patients, payers and physicians. The AMA now represents a minority of physicians but both it and the Maine Medical Association are Obamacare proponents.
Medicare subsidizes health care providers and the whole medical system in the U.S.
Providers complain now about not being paid enough, but I think that if their fees were market tested, if patients paid out of pocket, their incomes would plummet. They're on the federal gravy train and they know it.
"Medicare subsidizes health care providers and the whole medical system in the U.S."
Yes, that's a big part of why prices are so high. If you subsidize something, prices go up.
"They're on the federal gravy train and they know it."
Not anymore. From what I've heard it wasn't hard to make a very good income in the early years of Medicare but those days are long gone for most physicians. On top of that, Medicare now annually threatens to bankrupt most independent practices via "SGR" cuts. Even the high paying, procedure oriented specialties have started to see pay decreases in the last couple of years. They're now following the primary care physicians in seeking shelter as employees at big hospital groups.
Ironically, the physicians that had it best under Medicare are now the most vulnerable to Obamacare. Primary care physicians could survive with the sort of practice that woodcanoe recalls but an orthopedist or a cardiologist will be at the mercy of the government for their hospital based procedure fees.
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And now that the feds are in control of school loans, how many strings will be attached if you want to go to med school. You will be told where to practice and how much you can earn. Strangulation through regulation