"...[I]magine this on a large scale. Angry mobs of folks waiving their Obamacare “insurance” cards in the street demanding their free health care outside a closed and vacant doctor’s office. This supposed “right” to health care, cannot undo human nature and the delicate and myriad market forces at work to ensure that all parties in a transaction are willing participants. If government points its guns at the doctors to make them participate, I maintain that the “healthcare” that is delivered under these conditions will be a different variety than the mobs expected. In fact, it won’t be healthcare at all. I don’t know what it will be, but it won’t be healthcare.
Physicians who have made or are in the process of making the transition to “cash-based” practices, or concierge practices, embracing the principles of the free market, and rejecting the old statist medical models, will paradoxically thrive in the new dystopic medical marketplace. Patients will become increasingly reliant on this remnant of physicians whose willingness to boldly step out of the old model will simultaneously save their medical practice and the lives of many of their patients.
Many physicians will retire soon. Many sooner than they had planned. Some will quit and do other things. This secession from an increasingly government-controlled enterprise is predictable I think. Some will continue to practice against their will. The shortage in the supply of physicians relative to an increasing demand for their services will represent an opportunity for those waiting in long lines to re-think what it is, exactly, they have a “right” to.
I suppose I’m suggesting that the last person you want to trust your life to is one at whom you are pointing a gun. Perhaps the fear that will result from the care rendered by the “coerced” doctors will inspire a new “wellness.” Staying as far away as you possibly can from a “coerced” doctor’s office may be the most self-preserving move you can make in the near future."
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