[Pontiac]

Kathleen Murphy, Democrat running for the House of Delegates against Barbara Comstock, telling a forum in Great Falls that she believes it should law to force doctors to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients. Forced by government decree, mind you.

She did not recognize that the payments are inadequate to cover the doctors' costs. She also did not recognize there is a shortage of over 45,000 physicians now and that it is forecast to be 90,000 in a few years.

Ms. Murphy went on to say that she believes doctors should not be allowed to move away from their current place of practice, sell their practice, change their profession, retire or die under penalty of death.

[ClearCase_guy]

Ms. Murphy went on to say that she believes doctors should not be allowed to move away from their current place of practice, sell their practice, change their profession, retire or die under penalty of death.

The Roman emperor Diocletian came up with laws like that. Eventually, the Roman system of government faded away, but Europe was left with serfdom, which lasted in some locations into the 19th century.