Poll: 74% of doctors will retire, work part-time or quit if Obamacare takes effect

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Poll: 74% of doctors will retire, work part-time or quit if Obamacare takes effect: "

From the New York Post: ObamaCare: Flight of the MDs. In Detroit, 'white flight' has been a known phenomenon for generations, but this one is different:

For all the times that President Obama promised 'you'll get to keep your doctor' under his health-care reforms, he apparently failed to ask any practicing doctors.

A recent survey finds that countless MDs will respond to ObamaCare by limiting which patients they'll see.

The Physicians Foundation asked 2,400 doctors and American Medical Association members what they thought of the new law; a full 67 percent were against it.

More important, it asked how they'd cope with the new rules (which don't fully kick in until 2014). Sixty percent said they feel compelled to 'close or significantly restrict their practices to certain categories of patients.' And 59 percent said the 'reform' would oblige them to spend less time with the patients they do have.

Of course, many doctors already limit how many patients they'll take on who depend on government insurance (whose fees rarely cover an MD's costs). But it'll get worse under ObamaCare: In the survey, some 87 percent said they would significantly restrict Medicare patients and 93 percent said they'd significantly restrict Medicaid patients.

How can the government claim its health programs are popular when folks who would actually deliver care are running away? I'm not worried about physicians (we'll find ways to survive), but about our patients.

All in all, the survey found that 74 percent of doctors will alter how they practice.

To stay in business under ObamaCare, doctors will have to adjust. Some will see fewer patients themselves and hire nurse practitioners to help carry the load; others will work part-time and supplement their income elsewhere. Many will join groups or become salaried employees of hospitals or clinics.

The whole new nurse practitioner thing isn't new. We on the right saw this one coming down the pike long ago: Detroit Free Press admits that under ObamaCare, you will see a nurse practitioner, not a doctor because Obama 'created or saved' a massive doctor shortage. If ObamaCare is fully implemented, this is how your next visit will look like:

In 2014, ObamaCare will 'significantly expand the number of people able to see a doctor' but there are no doctors. What there will be is a long waiting line at the end of which will be a nurse practitioner or 'doctor's assistant.' Maybe. They're short of those too. Do you want to who will be waiting for you at the end of the line? Idiot community organizers wanting to give you a pain pill rather than a pacemaker:

Half the doctors in Michigan will retire in the next 10 years exacerbating the situation. The Detroit Free Press pushed for ObamaCare, now lament it's implications. ObamaCare is creating a huge doctor shortage, and is cutting Medicare reimbursement rates thus removing doctors from the system via attrition. The supply of doctors was already stretched. How did Obama believe that dumping 30 million people into the system wouldn't 'save or create' a shortage? Did he not see what happened in Massachusetts?

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