{"id":592,"date":"2009-09-16T14:09:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T18:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=592"},"modified":"2009-09-16T15:34:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T19:34:37","slug":"nearly-half-of-all-doctors-to-consider-quitting-if-obamacare-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/592\/nearly-half-of-all-doctors-to-consider-quitting-if-obamacare-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly Half of All Doctors to Consider Quitting Profession if ObamaCare Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Article.aspx?id=506199\" target=\"_blank\">IBD\/TIPP survey<\/a>\u00a0of 1,376 randomly selected practicing physicians from across the country, a whopping 45% of doctors\u00a0&#8220;would consider leaving their practice or taking an early retirement&#8221; if the health care &#8220;reform&#8221; plan being pushed by Congress and the President passes.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some other highlights of the survey, according to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Article.aspx?id=506199\" target=\"_blank\">Investors Business Daily<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2022<strong> <\/strong>Two-thirds, or 65%, of doctors say they oppose the proposed government expansion plan. This contradicts the administration&#8217;s claims that doctors are part of an &#8220;unprecedented coalition&#8221; supporting a medical overhaul.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<strong> <\/strong>More than seven in 10 doctors, or 71% \u2014 the most lopsided response in the poll \u2014 answered &#8220;no&#8221; when asked if they believed &#8220;the government can cover 47 million more people and that it will cost less money and the quality of care will be better.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new IBD\/TIPP survey\u00a0of 1,376 randomly selected practicing physicians from across the country, a whopping 45% of doctors\u00a0&#8220;would consider leaving their practice or taking an early retirement&#8221; if the health care &#8220;reform&#8221; plan being pushed by Congress and the President passes. Here are some other highlights of the survey, according to Investors Business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}