EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Primary-Care Doctors Who Refer Patients to Specialists Will Face Financial Penalties Under Obamacare

EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Primary-Care Doctors Who Refer Patients to Specialists Will Face Financial Penalties Under Obamacare: "A lot has been made about the 'public option' in early versions of the healthcare plan. Many feared that all would eventually be driven into government control of healthcare if a public option existed. But for all practical purposes, total government control of healthcare will have arrived with the current healthcare bill.

Although the Obama team may have wanted it, the 'public option' is not necessary for Obama to control the entire healthcare system. The healthcare bill is nothing but incentive after incentive to reduce many services and control the services that remain.

If the general public really understood what this bill was really about, they would be camped out in front of Congress, with pitchforks, just waiting to spot one of the 'Representatives' of the people.

In today's WSJ, Dr. Scott Gottlieb points out some of the ways services will be cut and discouraged and the way the bill will attempt to freeze out the small medical practioner:"