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<blockquote data-quote="UPS Lifer" data-source="post: 990411" data-attributes="member: 9789">I agree with your assessment of this.&nbsp; I am not worried about the freedom thing. And it is a non-winner to talk about freedom being under attack.&nbsp; BUT my pessimism that this will not work is based on how big government works or more appropriately how well it does not work. Doctors are the key to this. I have talked to a lot of doctors from all spectrums of practice. None of them are optimistic about this law. They see it from the &quot;inside&quot;.&nbsp; I highly trust my doctors but I don&#039;t trust the government. Just about all of them have said they will stop practicing. The others don&#039;t know. They are not going to work in a large corporation or hospital. My family practice has already added a special fee of $200 to remain a patient. This is not covered by insurance.&nbsp; This is in direct opposition to Obamacare. How long until I can&#039;t afford to maintain the wonderful quality care I get through this family practice.&nbsp; I can see real soon that my practice will be charging extra fees to maintain the practice at a certain level of care. So this &quot;Affordable&quot; Care Act has already hit me personally. I have some ideas.&nbsp; I am going to contact my Congressman.&nbsp; The problem is a shortage of doctors, dentists and medical professionals. The fix - have an incentive to become a doctor.&nbsp; Pay for the schooling make every graduating resident/doctor (even foreign nationals who come to America for education) put in at least 30 hours a week at a bone-fide clinic. This is a minimum of 10 year commitment - All schooling paid - Change the tort laws and newly trained doctors get the government to stand behind them just like fire fighters and police as a buffer for malpractice law suits. Make it a lot harder for law suits to be brought forth.&nbsp; This is just a start.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UPS Lifer, post: 990411, member: 9789"] I agree with your assessment of this. I am not worried about the freedom thing. And it is a non-winner to talk about freedom being under attack. BUT my pessimism that this will not work is based on how big government works or more appropriately how well it does not work. Doctors are the key to this. I have talked to a lot of doctors from all spectrums of practice. None of them are optimistic about this law. They see it from the "inside". I highly trust my doctors but I don't trust the government. Just about all of them have said they will stop practicing. The others don't know. They are not going to work in a large corporation or hospital. My family practice has already added a special fee of $200 to remain a patient. This is not covered by insurance. This is in direct opposition to Obamacare. How long until I can't afford to maintain the wonderful quality care I get through this family practice. I can see real soon that my practice will be charging extra fees to maintain the practice at a certain level of care. So this "Affordable" Care Act has already hit me personally. I have some ideas. I am going to contact my Congressman. The problem is a shortage of doctors, dentists and medical professionals. The fix - have an incentive to become a doctor. Pay for the schooling make every graduating resident/doctor (even foreign nationals who come to America for education) put in at least 30 hours a week at a bone-fide clinic. This is a minimum of 10 year commitment - All schooling paid - Change the tort laws and newly trained doctors get the government to stand behind them just like fire fighters and police as a buffer for malpractice law suits. Make it a lot harder for law suits to be brought forth. This is just a start. [/QUOTE]

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