Shocking! Survey in New England Journal of Medicine Says 46% of US Doctors Will Quit If Obamacare Passes

A shocking, new survey in the New England Journal of Medicine says that 46% of US doctors will either quit or be forced out of their practice if Obamacare passes. While this number is shocking because it is fretfully high and means that nearly one out of every two doctors in the US will no longer practice if Obamacare passes, it is nonetheless a dependable figure reported by a leading physician search firm with offices in the Atlanta and Dallas area, the Medicus Firm. The areas of specialty hit hardest by Obamacare, according to the survey, are in the family medicine and internal medicine fields. The bad survey results just continue as it was also revealed that a whopping 72% of doctors feel that a public option (such as that the Democrats have been flirting with) would cause the supply of doctors to decline, and, maybe consequently, an equally alarming 63% of doctors would not even recommend medicine anymore as a career choice!

These survey results are another nail in the coffin for, at least, the public relations battle in Barack Obama's ideological drive to pass and sign into law health care "reform." Unfortunately, whether it actually passes or not-probably due to lots of strong-arming, arm-twisting and bribery on the part of Democrats to dissenting lawmakers-is another story. However, the survey in the New England Journal of Medicine only confirms increasingly what all the protests, what all the Tea Parties, and what all the phone-jamming calls to congressional offices have been telling Obama: Mr. President, stop resisting the will of the people and abort Obamacare, now!

Let's delve into the disturbing/telling/interesting survey answers from the Medicus Firm study, shall we?

First of all, the overall message of the survey can be distilled this way: If Obamacare passes, there will be less doctors, period, yet more Americans who will be clamoring for health care services, as Obama's goal through "reform" is to move tens of millions of Americans off of the "uninsured" category into the "insured" category. However, as Dick Morris has been pointing out for months, merely increasing the number of Americans, who will ostensibly get medical care under his plan, while also increasing the number of doctors who will quit practicing is suicidal and stupid. It serves no purpose at all other than to turn the quality care in the US into that resembling a third-world hellhole, or an inferior, socialist country like Canada or France.

Knowing or expecting this, that's why the doctors surveyed answered so gloomily about their prospects after a theoretical Obamacare passage. They know it will be "no fun" at all for them to make ends meet or to continue actually running a business (since health care is, you know, a good after all and not a right as the socialist liberals would have you falsely believe). That's why, according to the same survey, an unbelievable majority of 71% said that they expected their income to worsen! Folks, it's clear that these doctors are the people to listen to if you even have one, little shred of a doubt about the so-called "wisdom" of supporting Obamacare. These doctors are on the proverbial front lines of the health care mess, and if they are anticipating all these grim outcomes, it's time to put your partisan hats aside, recognize reality, and just say "No!" to Obamacare.

What it boils down to for these doctors, also, is the constant need of their businesses-yes, liberals and Democrats, businesses-to make money and not be driven belly up by the crushing costs of staggering debt or malpractice insurance, just to name a few cost concerns. Factor in to those cost liabilities the insane and oppressive amount of loans new doctors have to pay back in the next few years-many approaching a quarter of a million dollars!!!-and you cannot honestly deny the fact that it's becoming increasingly cost prohibitive to be a doctor and open a practice! What that means for average American is clear: hardship. As in, it will be a darn hard time-after Obamacare passes; if it passes-to find doctors or to see them without waiting for-I don't know, something approaching an excruciatingly unreasonable time. If Americans wanted to see what the inferior health care systems of Canada or France are like, they would just live there, right? No need to have Obamacare bring that to the US.

The best thing to do for average Americans at this point is, in a nutshell, what Rush Limbaugh said, and I'm not being a ditto-head about this. I'm just yielding to his practical and sensible advice. Flood your congressman or woman with a barrage of phone calls, e-mails, or whatever, as long as it's non-violent. Just make sure they can't ignore your demands of stopping Obamacare.

To send Marc questions, praise or criticism, e-mail him at marc_schenker@telus.net

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Sources:

Physician Survey, The New England Journal of Medicine

Dick Morris, Doctor Shortage Will Worsen Health Bill Impact, Dick Morris.com

Christopher Neefus, Nearly One-Third of Doctors Could Leave Medicine if Health-Care Reform Bill Passes, CNS News

Listeners rush to call House on healthcare, UPI