See: U.S. Plans Stealth Survey on Access to Doctors
The administration says the survey will address a “critical public policy problem”: the increasing shortage of primary care doctors, including specialists in internal medicine and family practice. It will also try to discover whether doctors are accepting patients with private insurance while turning away those in government health programs that pay lower reimbursement rates.
Can the government force Doctors to accept Obama-Care patients? (What would or could stop them?)
Should the government force Doctors to accept Obama-Care patients? (Only thugs and thieves would say "Yes.")
The only alternative that the government has in getting Obama-Care patients to be readily accepted by Doctors is to have a payment schedule that is competitive with private insurers. That "jus' ain't a gonnah happen." The costs would be astronomical, just like all of the Obama-Care critics have been saying from day one. Forcing Doctors to accept Obama-Care patients would allow the leftist political class to pretend that their medical care scheme will work, at “cheaper” costs. (But only for a short time.) Of course, finding any doctor after that point will be a whole different problem.
Then the question that will be debated in the political sphere is whether or not government can prevent Doctors from quiting or retiring.
UPDATE [June 28, 2011 - 22:49]
See: Surprise: HHS drops plan to snoop on doctors
See: Program to Use Mystery Shoppers to Probe Doctors Scrapped
See: Kirk asks Obama administration to reconsider 'stealth' doctor survey
The Congressman has some interesting questions for Kathleen Sebelius. Among them:
2) Please provide records of how the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) of Chicago, Illinois, won a federally competitive bid to carry out this work.
It is an interesting question.
Hat Tip to Hot Air for the Update links.
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