Rubber Meets Road in Health Care Debate

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Government control, be it guns or health care is a recipe for disaster.

A recent Dick Morris column run in my local paper talks about what happens to the supply of doctors when government starts to control health care.   Mr. Morris used Canadian and British examples of physician shortages in this article.



Here's a relevant quote:

"A recent survey of doctors by the Pew Institute found that 45 percent of all practicing doctors would consider retiring or closing their practices if the Barack Obama health care bill passes."

So where does "the rubber meet the road"?

Meet my personal doctor.  I've been going to him since he opened his practice 15 years ago.  He's my wife's doctor.  The primary care doc for my 3 grown sons and their wives.   He also takes care of many of my co-workers.

My doctor has informed us that as of 1/15 he will close his practice, sell his home and is seeking employment in his undergraduate field of expertise (engineering).  His wife, also a medical doctor, will also resign from medical practice.   They will be moving to a smaller home and smaller community.  One where self-sufficiency will be easier to achieve than in/around a big city!   He has had it with all the red tape, the cost and overhead of trying to recoup money from Medicare/aid and sees things only getting worse.

Granted, he may be taking a pessimistic approach and retreating, but I think he is right.  Things are only going to get worse.

THANKS, OBAMA!    I'd love to keep my physician, but you've driven him out of business!