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Beck Hosts Panel of Doctors Who Might Quit Medical Profession Over Obamacare

On Tuesday evening, Glenn Beck brought up a recent poll revealing that 83 percent of doctors have considered quitting the medical profession over Obamacare. To delve into the matter on a deeper level, Beck hosted a panel of doctors to get their take on the Affordable Care Act and find out what it means for their profession.

The doctors tackled issues that will likely arise as a result of Obamacare’s implementation, such as rationing, decision by committee, and burdensome inefficacy. One panelists vowed to quit the medical profession in 2014 after what will be nearly three decades caring for people. He said the reason is because he will no longer be able to “look patients in the eye” and tell them that he’s able to give them the best quality care available. “I can’t lie to patients,” he said.

Beck’s own doctor even weighed in, saying that government bureaucrats will “destroy” the doctor patient relationship.

Watch the thought-provoking segment below and be sure to share it with others, especially doctors:

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  • sueatt
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:55am

    Has anyone here checked out to see who this organization is? The Doctor Patient Medical Organization who conducted this “survey” was founded in 2011 and is heavy on the side of Tea Party groups, etc. It is not a doctor organization but a special interest group which everyone is now quoting. Even the survey is questionable at best. While you may say doctors may quit, this 83% number cited by all the republicans on tv and apparently even Mr. Beck, is bogus as is the survey. A simple fact check on google would have worked. Interested in truth or not?

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    • anomnomnommm
      Posted on July 13, 2012 at 3:32pm

      Agreed. The survey did not mention Obamacare or any policy in particular. “We found it came from a survey by the Doctor Patient Medical Association Foundation, a group founded last fall that is opposed to the health care law.

      The group asked: “How do current changes in the medical system affect your desire to practice medicine?” According to the group, 83 percent answered, “Makes me think about quitting,” 5 percent said, “I’m re-energized,” while 13 percent said they were unsure or had no opinion.”

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  • MidwesternWoman
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:10am

    NO ONE is talking to the nurses, repiratory-physical-occupational-speech therapists all of which are required to have significant schooling and credentials, and the likely chance that their salaries will go down and workload up. (Check out the salaries in the US compared to Canada for doctors AND other health care professionals). There isn’t going to be just a shortage of docs, there’s going to be many other health care professionals throwing in the towel as well.

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  • up2me
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:07am

    Follow Obamacare to it’s conclusion. By 2025 Social Security will have Surplus.

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    • wewantchillywilly
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:23am

      yeah, and our national debt will be completely paid for too, right?

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    • up2me
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 12:21pm

      The treatment under Obamacare will leave no one left to recieve Social Secutity…Hence, THE SURPLUS

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  • pudssweetie
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 12:49am

    The ignorance of some people are just mind boggling. How do you know what is going to happen if you don’t even bother reading the bill itself. Pelosi was right when she said that you have to pass the bill in order to know whats inside. Anyone can download the Health Care bill and read it, but will anyone do it? Probably not because it is just easier to repeat talking points rather than doing any research. Go ahead and keep believing in what you want, and keep denying the fact that are out there. Just remember, there will be a day when you will have to explain to your elderly Mother or Father why they are being refused much needed medicine or why they have to wait months to see a Doctor. Try explaining to your child with a high fever that won’t go down why you cannot take them to the Doctor so they can feel better. Enjoy what you have now, because if Obamacare does not get repealed it is going to be a very bumpy ride.

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    • Chancellor
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:56am

      I did and it covers everything, including your bank account to reeducation centers……

      but nothing on how or where all the “New and improved Doctors will come from……

      and yes it does have a section on getting approval before treatment can proceed………

      also cutting medicare 500,000 dollars All of it sounds like on BIG LIE rolled into a

      myriad of smaller lies and fake data. I read the whole thing and I never in my life seen a bigger boondoggal ever!

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 3:54am

      Chancellor
      500,000 equals 500,000,000,000

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    • encinom
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 8:20am

      Poor Puddie, belives the lies of the right and Beck about the healthcare act (including the poll Beck is citing, the poll is nothing more than a lie when you take a close look at it and its methods). Poor Puddie, like other Beckerheads, you want nothing more than to be a serf for the elite as long as you get to keep your God and Guns you have little care for the rest of the Nation.

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  • KingCoal59
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 12:44am

    Glenn you see here the class warfare many of these people hate drs and think we make too much. They have no comprehension of our overhead and that we are often not paid. It’s hopeless.we go to school for so long and graduate with crushing debt, the malpractice insurance costs escalate over time even if you have never had a claim. If you take Medicaid and Medicare then you are consigned to a life of poverty, this is what everyone’s career will be when we get single payer. It won’t just be my profession wo suffers under Obama Care though, everytime I go to continueing medical education we have classes on “end of life and HOSPICE” and the virtues of hospice and it‘s not just for cancer anymore it’s for COPD, heart disease, dementia lots of serious diseases which require frequent hospitalizations. You hate us now but you are being played, it’s class warfare, eventually you will understand, I am afraid.

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:04am

      First off its not a career.Its a calling.It isn’t a right but a necessity.I’m not the one who wants socialized health care nor am I one who is brainwashed.I know the real truth,This isn’t about healthcare its about genocide.Anyact that can save you can slay you.Why else do you think that non terminal illness is being covered for hospice?What if I told you that copd can be inflicted and even cured?Think I’m nuts.I’m not.I know how its done.Its being used by the eos.Think jet guns are simply for vaccinations?They ain’t.They want it to appear that its greedy doctors inflicting the harm to drum up profits[kinda mafia like, another group they hide behind].Its designed to bankrupt the system.Its medical financial jihad all rolled into one with the final intent being our genocide.;I know first hand how its done.The medical professions at best help them and at worst turn a blind eye and let it continue.I’ve no pity for any of you whatsoever.Furthermore I’m quickly turning stone cold to the rest of those this will harm.You get what your blinders have allowed.But not to worry all of you will quickly have the scars we have.

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    • Maalog
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:47pm

      encinom
      pull your head out of your ass,our guns will help us defend against idiots like you and obama.heneeds to be hung or high treason,for what he is doing to america.
      the only reason he isn’t dead yet is because the race war coming would have started already.
      it’s time for americans to take back our country.
      if you don’t like it get the hell out.

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  • Vernon Black
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:40pm

    Ok, you Leftist Liberal Doctors who love Obamacare when medical care becomes a RIGHT, YOU become MY SLAVE…..The chains aren’t too tight? Are they?….Too bad, so sad, your Master!

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    • Maalog
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:50pm

      vernon and objective you 2 are down right pyscos.

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  • tharpdevenport
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:17pm

    I’ll believe it when I see it, regards to the 83%. I know a good number will drop out, but over time.

    Remember, there was a similar poll stating somewhere between (I forget the exact number) 70 & 85% of doctors would quit if Obamacare[Tax] was passed. That didn’t happen. They’ve been holding out hope on repeal.

    The proof will be if it doesn’t get repealed, if we lose the Senate. Then we’ll start slowly seeing the numbers.

    I started the video interview and before Glenn even said it, I was thinking the same thing, with different words: if doctors start dropping out, which ever person pro ObamacareTax in office sees doctors going, there will be a Federal mandate, a fiat, that doctors cannot quit without approval from the government.

    Of yes, there will be jails.

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    • pudssweetie
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:22pm

      Another one who does not pay attention. Many Doctors said they would quit at the begining of 2014 when Obamacare goes into affect. It’s only 2012…DUH.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:29pm

      I know of several that are scoping out property in Central America to move to, because of this. Jails schmails. You put all the smart people in jails and society is done, no matter what framework you want that society to work under.

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    • tharpdevenport
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:20pm

      PUDSSWEETIE, I know the feeling; you clearly didn’t READ MY POST. Try paying attention to the basic English I used, next time.

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  • saranda
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:06pm

    GB takes a survey which has less than 5% response rate, is conducted by fax and has no way of verifying who actually “filled in” the faxed responsible see and turns it into his latest sky is falling rant. I have to. Elieve that most people on here I ow be is lying to them but find it entertaining. No one could take this guy seriously. Could they?

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    • pudssweetie
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:20pm

      @ Saranda, you are another one who is blind and ignorant. I have read many articles and done research and they all basically say the same thing, Doctors will not be told what or how to treat their Patients and will quit their practice unless Obamacare is repealed.

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    • Bowlz
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:45pm

      Sandra: Prove him wrong with facts, not feelings. Unfortunately for GB, he’s been right for several years; it’s on audio/video from CNN to Fox to GBTV. To deny it is sheer apathy, ignorance or evil intent. Prove him wrong and do everyone a favor; save the world! Can you or will you do that for your fellow humans to educate us?

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:45pm

      To put a finer point on it, the less that 5% response rate netted a total of 699 respondents. Given that their are roughly 700,000 practicing physicians in the US, the survey represents about 00.1% of them. So 83% of 00.1% consider quitting. News Flash – more than 00.1% of the total physician population die or retire every year. A completely meaningless survey meant to push the propaganda to the mindless sheep.

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    • mtcountrygrl
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:06am

      I don’t get you Obama Koolaid suckers… Talk to your own Doctor, I have. Read the darn bill yourselves, I have. This bill will KILL our healthcare and our economy. It does none of the things it promises to do and EVERYTHING they said it would not do. There is no pre-existing condition coverage in there. It says insurance companies cannot deny you coverage, but it puts no limits on what they can charge you. Equal premiums for men and women…increased premiums for men to share the costs of women’s healthcare so married couples will pay the same and single men will pay more! It does cover abortions, it does violate religious freedoms, it does have rationing. It does not decrease costs (nothing in this bill addresses anything that inflates costs), it adds new reporting requirements, regulations that require compliance and new taxes on medical care devises; so guess what folks health care costs are going UP! There is nothing in the bill that addresses what you may be charged for insurance, only that you must buy it. It mandates that all kinds of things must be covered in a plan, so people can no longer just buy inexpensive major coverage plans. And it turns Doctors into slaves (work for this wage or be put out of service). This bill should have folks rioting in the streets, but keep watching MSNBC and clapping at Obama’s talking points. Geez did you all have a labotomies.

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  • KingCoal59
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 10:41pm

    I have closed my office and work part time. I was the dr who people could come to and if you owed me money we would still see you because you were my patient. I have decided I couldn’t go on working and keep taking less but be expected to do more and more government paperwork and maybe get paid maybe not. I was working at more than one job to make ends meet for those times when Medicare or Medicaid would decide to change everything and maybe not pay for 2 months or more. Sometimes Medicare or Medicaid would change the rules on what they would pay for and they made the rules and there was no use to argue. They wore me down. I had one time Medicare didn’t pay for 8 or 9 months. I was expected to maintain and the majority of my patients were old.

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    • wowthird
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 8:15am

      THIS is what the public doesn’t get. My husband is in the healthcare field after going to school for eight years. He also goes for long periods of time without payment from Medicare and Medicaid. If you attempt to contact them to resolve any discrepancy, expect to be on the phone waiting for someone to speak with for an hour or longer. Ridiculous that anyone thinks the government can improve on much of anything by taking control.

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  • Gypsy123
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 10:32pm

    Ask my MD today he said he was not sure but right now with the new changes his office could not even break even. They were going in the hole. Medicine going in the hole with changes so far that have been done can you imagine when this whole thing goes down. I think 83% will be a low number

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  • blackyb
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 10:13pm

    McDonalds is always hiring.

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    • Just in time
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 10:55pm

      Really????????

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    • pudssweetie
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:14pm

      Wow Really??? Well in 2014 when all of this goes into affect and you get sick and you need to see a Doctor and can’t, I bet you will end up singing a different tune.

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    • RogueCop
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:54pm

      Feel free when you get sick to go though that government teet drive thru and see how that works out for ya. You might want fries with your colonoscopy and believe me, that is exactly what you will get. Bare minimum care. no thank you, I’ll be happy to pay for the services I receive. That is exactly what this law will create. a two tier system. the poor will have to use the drive thru.

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  • cemerius
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 10:11pm

    Oh we should go back to the barter system…tonsils removed = one chicken or a dozen eggs :)

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    • pudssweetie
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:16pm

      Actually I do think that will happen. Many Doctors who care about their Patients will go underground so they can help people.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:31pm

      Or, we could go back to the “bite me” middle finger attitude Americans used to have regarding government. Why let it devolve into barbarity? Refuse to submit, refuse to comply. Is living under a bridge more noble if you let it happen to you by your own choice to be compliant or something? Is comfort this cherished that we’d sacrifice everything for it now?

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    • kenr1963
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:46pm

      My dad cost my Grandmaw her favorite sitting hen.And she never let him forget it either.

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  • Nanny
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:58pm

    More people would be against Obama Care if they know “what is in it”. I wish there would be a weekly program on GBTV that would go over the 2700 pages of the Health Care bill until the election. The American people need to know exactly what they are in for; like bureaucrats telling the Doctor how to treat their patients instead of the Doctor making the decisions. Patients will be treated the same according to their diagnosis instead of as individuals and according to not just their diagnosis but other medical issues as well.
    The other issue is our politicians will not be under Obama care, they will have a gold standard policy; I asks if Obama care is so great why aren’t they going to be under the same health care plan? Our politicians should have to be governed under the same laws the constituents have to obey.

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  • ButResistWeMuch
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:42pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgbwlnpY5B8&feature=share

    Great song! Add this man to the group of musicians whom you are promoting, Glenn! :-)

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  • Individualism
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:19pm

    Well my mom who is a doctor and my sister who is a surgeon are still getting wage increases and doing better each year, Obamacare has its goods and bads but it doesn’t seem to be limiting wages of all doctors like some folks thought.

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    • hi
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:27pm

      It hasn’t been implemented yet.

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    • cemerius
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:53pm

      No worries Comrade……they will soon feel the punch in the “back door” why not ask yourself “who is paying for the 2700 new IRS agents”??? There are so MANY hidden costs in this “tax” that you will NOT even know the money you are “losing” was a direct result in this!!

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    • Exrepublisheep
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:59pm

      Doctors are great. All that schooling makes them life savers. BUT. They are tools of the insurance trade.

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    • sawbuck
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 10:01pm

      Individualism
      Just wait until our country goes BANKRUPT…
      And cant pay their bills…

      Will your family in the medical field…. Work Pro Bono …?

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    • encinom
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 10:13pm

      A partisan , tea ****** party affilated organziation conducted a comically poor survey and found favorable results. Beck knows just how stupid his audience is that he he can offer this steaming pile of bull as evidence of anything.

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    • pudssweetie
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:25pm

      Hate to tell ya but it is only 2012. Obamacare does not go into affect until 2014 so of course they haven’t seen any wage reduction yet, but they will along with many other changes.

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    • pudssweetie
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:29pm

      @Encinom, think you better take a look at yourself. Apparently English is not your strong point.

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    • KingCoal59
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 2:35am

      Obama Care has not beenimplemented yet, so you can’t make that claim. I find it difficult to truly believe you come from a family of physicians and think Obama care is a good thing. There will be rationing and red tape in the extreme, there will be audits of the effectiveness of our care, payments will be related to what some committee finds to be desirable practice behavior. It will be a different and miserable world. I will do as I am told or they can shut me down, so the dr patient relationship will never be the same. The paper work alone will cause us to need to double our staff.

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  • blaaaaackwoman
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:18pm

    Doctors are pill pushers, trained dogs of the big pharma companies. Good riddance.to them.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:22pm

      well go on back and join your mind in the stone age

      you two will have lots to talk about

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    • Endyr
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:54pm

      Go live in Kenya or Chad for a year smart a$$ and tell me we don’t have superior health care. When your pop gets turned down by a panel for an operation that can preserve his quality of life instead he gets a wheelchair and hospice care, then we’ll see if your opinion stands.

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:57pm

      And if an emergency happens and you desperately need a doctor, you’ll bad mouth them while on the gurney being wheeled into the emergency room, too?

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    • Maalog
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 11:02pm

      omg,your one of the stupid people thinking obama is doing something good for america with obamacare,your just as stupid as he is thinking america will let him get away with this.

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  • Exrepublisheep
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:17pm

    Their just whining, what will they do instead?

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:29pm

      retire. incase you haven’t noticed they have the money to do so

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  • hi
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:16pm

    Physicians should put a sign on their door that says they refuse to treat liberals. The libs can go to all of the unqualified docs who got in and got passed along because of affirmative action instead of merit like Michael Jackson’s doc, for example.

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    • Maalog
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 11:05pm

      micheal jackson was a low life drug addict pedophile,glad the ick a– bastard is dead,as for his dr,he was doing what jackson was paying him to do,administer drugs to him.

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  • normbal
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:15pm

    There will be a shortage of Doctors. But not “Providers,” as we are now referred. This will allow for armies of poorly trained, undereducated, less skilled public education victims to become Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants and who knows what other clever names will be given to “the midlevel providers.” Right now, in America, a person can become an RN in as little as two years. Another year of school and clinical rotations allows them to hang out a shingle an practice medicine in many states, Maryland among them. How much background does a physician have? Not counting those who started medical studies AFTER another degree/career course (many nurses, chiropractors, and other medical specialists return to school later in life), four years University, four years medical school, and a minimum of a year in an internship, but most everyone takes on another 3 or more years in Residency in a specialty area. Neurosurgeons may have upwards of 12 to 15 years of education AFTER High School before they poke around inside brains. Your Family Practitioner, nine to eleven years. But the Nurse Practitioner doesn’t “cost” as much for a system like Obama’s Tax Care, and the Universities will be ramping up their programs, just watch. The Nurse will see you now.

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  • SoiledDove
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:08pm

    Surely you must realize that this survey is deeply flawed and that it does not, in any way, reflect reality. The survey was conducted by fax, allowing survey takers to self-report to be included. This is one of the worst way to get accurate results. Furthermore, the response rate was only 4.3%.

    If media figures want anyone to take them seriously, they have GOT to stop reporting on this 83% number. It just isn’t true.

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  • Steelhead
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:07pm

    Glenn Beck is crazy to have a doctor who prays with him,like that’s going to help.

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    • sawbuck
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:19pm

      I think this is the first time I believe your right Steelhead..!

      Barry and the Libs have this country so screwed up ..

      It will take the whole Nation on its knees in prayer .

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  • MAMMY_NUNN
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:04pm

    When the paperwork and bureaucracy overwhelms you it’s time to find a new profession.

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:13pm

      I am in real estate we are completely confused as to what to do with these new taxes imposed on home sales coming up next year. I have no idea on how to answer my clients questions about the upcoming tax nightmare. way to go lets depress further an already awfully ruined business of housing. well its not like we need houses or doctors anyways.

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  • HorseCrazy
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:54pm

    my doctor is quitting. The fantastic man has kept me alive with a terminal disease for the last 27 years since I was 5 and diagnosed. He has kept me relatively pain free and able to have children and live work and play. My dr, God and big pharma are to thank. He cried when he told me, the guilt he feels over leaving is huge as medicine has always been his passion especially those who are in need and considered untreatable or are too poor to pay for treatment. I am frankly sickened and frightened at the thought of what may happen to me and my family including my young child if I do not get the proper care which also uses drugs not labeled for treating my disease and treatments deemed by insurance companies as elective. Just not sure folks. Frightening for so many. God bless you all you great dr’s and medical professionals out there. We all appreciate you. Side note as an employer I am dropping all medical coverage. I can no longer afford it for my staff which absolutely breaks my heart.

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  • Chromo200
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:54pm

    Why should we worry, with the shortage of doctors, we will allow doctors from NIgeria, Kenya, Pakistan, India, and even Bangladesh come to the US. Do you want to see what will happen, look at Great Britain. The hospitals and general practice Dr.s are foriegn doctors, that barely speak english. There will be zones that there will be no doctors. One will have to travel for about an hour or two to see a doctor.

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  • justangry
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:51pm

    Why didn’t GB just tell the good doctors that his boy Romney would repeal it like he promised? Sigh

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:55pm

      becks never been a fan of romney, he is just a better alternative than obama

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 10:01pm

      And even if we’re lucky enough to get rid of Obama in November (I’m betting we will not), Romney is not going to repeal Obamacare … no one will. People have these big dreams and hopes — dump them and become a realist; things are going to get much, much worse. Prepare for it as it’s coming.

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