Washington Examiner:
Just as cars can’t go anywhere without drivers and employees can’t work without bosses, health care doesn’t happen when there are no doctors around. And when an estimated 70 percent of the doctors in the nation’s deepest-blue state are rebelling against Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act is forcing a critical decision: America will have to junk Obamacare and go back to square one on health insurance reform, or trash the last vestige of private health care in this country by forcing doctors to do the government’s bidding.
The rebellion among California physicians was detailed earlier this week by Washington Examinersenior investigative reporter Richard Pollock. “Independent insurance brokers who work with both insurance companies and doctor networks estimate that about 70 percent of California’s 104,000 licensed doctors are boycotting the exchange,” Pollock wrote. The president and speaker of the legislative body of the California Medical Association — the Golden State chapter of the Obamacare-endorsing American Medical Association — both confirmed to Pollock that the rebellion is widespread and intensely felt.
California’s doctor rebellion isn’t unique. Pollock previously reported comparable situations at 15 other locations around the country. Not only are thousands of doctors saying no to Obamacare, so are major health insurance providers, including United Healthcare, Aetna and Cigna, as well as some of the nation’s most famous hospitals. Among the latter group are Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, Memorial Sloan-Kettering and NewYork-Presbyterian in New York, and the Physicians Regional Hospital in Naples, Florida, which was formerly associated with the Cleveland Clinic.
These developments herald an approaching crisis for Obamacare that will dwarf the present confusion and political damage caused by disastrous launch of healthcare.gov.
Well, Obama-syncophants will still be able to trumpet all the free and low-cost COVERAGE that doesn’t get you CARE.
It seems it really is ”Words, just words,” that is important to Obama and his syncophants.
Getting results is beside the point.
If you think your doctor is unhappy about ObamaCare as it stands now, just wait until he is conscripted!
Dr. Stephen Kiteck takes a different tack.
That was for his loyal patients.
PENALTIES!!!!
Obama has no idea how to run a lemonade stand, much less a small business, like a doctor’s office.
The more I read about the Liberals, Progressives and Democrats and especially OFRAUD and his administration…the more I see the word “FORCE” and then the word “FORCED”…
Does this resonate with anyone…?!?!
Just goes to show the World the stupid Ideology of the Left of the Democrats their Ideas and Policies are so remote, so polar opposite from freedom and liberty….that they have to FORCE people to adhere the them…
“FORCE” is the exact opposite from the cry of Freedom and Liberty from Conservatives…
Now, I KNOW it resonates with (true) Conservatives…
Americans really need to rethink the Democrat Party albeit hijacked by the Liberals and Progressives and the “force” they are using….and will continue to use…until oppression really takes hold of the Nation…
@Nanny G: Barry knows how to run a country into the ground, isn’t that enough? Sadly the sycophants like our very own Greg are more than happy to carry his water and cover his backside making excuse’s to cover their mistake of supporting this flagrant Communist.
This whole scenario is reminding me more and more of the novel “Atlas Shrugged”. They kept passing more and more laws to deal with the problems created by earlier laws. When I first slogged through that tome, I thought that was completely unbelievable. Shows me, eh? ;-/
THEY CANNOT FORCE THE DOCTORS,
those doctors need to be free so to do what their skill and knowledge offer them of solution
to heal their patients,
this is not a job which you shut the door at x hour and forget your day and relax completely,
not at all; this is a mind bogging position the doctors accept to choose at early age when they discover their gift of healing, THEY MUST BE FREE TO WORK WITH THEIR HEALING HANDS AND MIND,
IF THEY FORCE THE SKILLED PEOPLE, THEY DESTROY THE FREE THINKER WHO COME BACK HOME STILL SEARCHING IN HIS MIND THE RIGHT SOLUTION HE IS CONFRONTED WITH, IT’S A 24 HOURS WORK, HE IS NOT ALLOWED TO MAKE A MISTAKE,
COMPOUNDED BY A MULTIPLE OF DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS FROM DIFFERENT PERSONS,
ON DIFFERENT TIME OF THE DAY,
THEY NEED TO BE FREE THINKER TO CONTINUE THEIR STUDY WHICH NEVER IS ENDED,
THEY CANNOT BE MANIPULATED AND BECOME ZOMBIES FOR THE GOVERNMENT AGENDA, LIKE THEY HAVE NOW,
WHICH WILL KILL HIS DOCTORS SO TO MAKE THEIR PLAN CONCRETE, A FORCE TAKE OVER
OF THE MEDICAL MIND AND KNOWLEDGE, AND THIS IS UNAMERICAN AND AGAINST THE FREEDOM WHICH THE WARRIORS HAVE SHED BLOOD TO PRESERVE IN THIS COUNTRY AND
INTO OTHER COUNTRIES WHO TRY THAT COMMUNIST WAY FOR THE PEOPLE AND END UP KILLING THE FABRIC OF THAT NATION,
GERMANY NEVER RECOVER THEIR LOST FROM HAVING IMPOSE THEIR CITIZENS THAT DOCTRINE FROM HELL,
NO ONE WILL BE HAPPY TO BE FORCE IN THEIR WORK BY A GOVERNMENT OTHER THAN THEIR OWN SELF GOVERNING,
THAT COUNTRY AS BIG AS IT IS WILL LOSE HIS REAL DOCTORS, AND REPLACE IT BY FRAUDULENT INGNORANT COMING FROM OTHER COUNTRIES, WITH AN ATTITUDE LACKING THE COMPASSION AND KNOWLEDGE TO HEAL THIS NATION,