I am one of the military veterans who uses TriCare, so I already have a single payer system and it sucks. What the uninformed masses, suckers, or whatever you want to call them, are finding out with O-Care (yes, I find it hard to say his name without cringing) that doctors are hard to find under government payouts. I have lived in various cities since I retired and always have difficulty finding a doctor taking TriCare unless I am near a base of some sort. In Denver, I had 4 doctors in 3 years as they were dropping covering Tricare due to those low payouts and hard to deal with the insurance covering the area. In my current area, even with a base, I am on my third doctor due to them dropping off the system and most of the new possible doctors are closed to new patients due having to many patients on the low payout from the insurance the government uses. I hope the suckers, newly insured enjoy what they voted for through their elected Representatives and Senators and Yes, the President also.

How many doctors can we have? What prohibits me from administering medical service? Is this a value the Government provided, or an unintended consequence of the most powerful union in practice?

Aren't they glad they voted for this. Elections DO have consequences!

leonard Piekoff wrote "death of a profession:medicine' in the 1980's and it has been coming true since lbj got the congress to pass the medicare/medicade bill in 1965. will those who are elected to office ever learn; NO.

I'm a bit embarassed, but of all the possible outcomes of Obamacare being forced upon us, the one thing I didn't consider was it collapsing in on itself. And yeah, this report on a CBS station in Pelosi's is surprising.

You should be careful what you wish for, Nancy. You passed it, we are finding out what's in it, and the more we the people find, the less we the people like. And I don't see a reversal of that trend anytime soon.

The other thing that is happening is the growth of cash-on-the-table concierge medicine. This is an alternative that allows doctors to actually practice medicine...and is an additional factor that absorbs physicians from the government insurance system.

Jan

what will happen first is the govt will wipe out student loans for medical students/residents to work for the system. Eventually you'll end up seeing public health as the only health. Luckily outside the country there is great demand for US doctors due to an alarming increase in expat populations. That will of course diminish as the best doctors (who do not want to work for the govt) flee the US. In the meantime any number of insidious things could occur. Licensing boards could make it harder for docs to move to different states, etc. They could even demand docs accept medicare and public exchanges in order to legally practice. We wait and watch...

I've got my fingers crossed.

What a surprise to see a CBS station in Pelosi`s very own SF Bay Area...report on the failure of Obama care. There is even a quote from a doc at UCSF Med school. I am pleased to see these stories are beginning to surface in Ca. It will be the voiced dissatisfaction from participants in O Care that will bring down the program and those who shoved it down America's throat.