Rural Areas Could Lose Their Doctors

The Health Care bill, now law, could deprive rural areas of the country of their doctors. How so?

The law includes a section that gives the government the power and authority to conscript (draft) up to 6000 doctors, forcing them into servitude to the government, at the pay rate that Medicare allows. Those doctors will be forced to serve at the pleasure of the government, where the government directs. This will reduce or eliminate rural doctors in two ways:

1) the government will direct conscripted doctors to work where the need is greatest - in the cities, and

2) Rural doctors will abandon rural areas because, as the only doctor likely to live in that area, he is the only target when the feds come looking for doctors to bring to the cities.

If rural doctors move to metro areas, there is only a 1 in 40 chance of being conscripted because of all the other doctors in the area. If they stay in the rural area, the chances of being conscripted are almost 100%.

So, rural doctors that do not voluntarily leave when the conscription begins will likely be forcibly removed.

Now I wonder why the liberals never mentioned this part about forcing up to 6000 doctors into government service...

Probably for the same reason they did not tell you what is on pages 148-149. If you have read the law, you will know that is where the government panel can determine what care you do or do not get based on your age, condition and importance, and that their decision is final - there is no appeal.

In fact, there are roughly 2600 pages in the law that the liberals purposely kept hidden from the public until it was too late to dissect. I wonder what other nasty surprises are in store for "free America". Stay tuned...

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