Explosive Survey: Physicians in Full-Blown Panic Over Obamacare

This could be the most alarming story yet to come out of the health care debate.

Forget about all the inane squabbling on Capitol Hill. Forget what the polls say. Forget the Tea Party rallies, the town hall meetings, the strong-arm tactics of MoveOn and the SEIU, the debunked sob stories… For a moment, let’s just look at what physicians say they will do if Obamacare becomes a reality.

The Medicus Firm, a national physician search firm, recently surveyed 1,195 doctors, and what they found should shock you more than Nancy Pelosi after another eyelift:

46.3% of primary care physicians (family medicine and internal medicine) feel that the passing of health reform will either force them out of medicine or make them want to leave medicine.

AGAIN, for those of you who need a little extra help (like in Louise Slaughter’s district) - almost half of primary care physicians would leave the business! If the bill did not literally call for actual rationed health care, that is exactly the result we would get anyway. Less doctors, means less care. Less care, means rationing. Rationing… dare I say… leads to panels. Yes, panels (be they of the death or life variety) deciding who gets what care and when.

Some other grim findings from the survey:

72% of physicians feel that a public option would have a negative impact on physician supply, with 45% feeling it will “decline or worsen dramatically” and 27% predicting it will “decline or worsen somewhat.

24% of physicians think they will try to retire early if a public option is implemented.

The physicians take a decidedly more cautioned approach to reform than the president:

62.7% of physicians feel that health reform is needed but should be implemented in a more targeted, gradual way, as opposed to the sweeping overhaul that is in legislation.