Angry Docs Say Proposed Government-Run Health Care Plan Will Drive Physicians out of Medicine

Friday, June 26, 2009
By Pete Winn, Senior Writer/Editor


President Barack Obama appears at the American Medical Association meeting in Chicago, June 15, 2009. (AP photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)


(CNSNews.com) - You do not have to be a brain surgeon to see that government-run health care will bode ill for doctors and medicine, says Dr. David McKalip of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

But McKalip, who happens to be a St. Petersburg, Fla.-based neurosurgeon, predicts an eventual mass exodus of doctors out of medicine if Congress passes a health care reform bill that contains a mandatory government insurance option.

“I think you’ll see an incremental change where doctors will be squeezed so hard, they will simply start migrating out of medicine,â€