Doctors with the means will retire rather than attempt to work under severely controlled government regulations...especially ones that haven't been issued yet. I would estimate that half of all MDs will leave the profession. Future MDs now in school will be doing some soul searching. All health care workers in the US today will be heavily courted by the SEIU. The SEIU will have already produced 5 or 6 thousand pages of “work rules” for “employers”.
As the government scrambles to provide “care” for of the formerly uninsured, the strain on the already stressed system will bring it to the break point. Already overcrowded ER'S will see enormous increases in patients. Nurse practitioners and Physicians Assistants will become the first line in treatment as MDs become scarce.
Down the road, private insurance companies disappear due to attrition and inability to compete.
All chain drug stores will ultimately be taken over GM style by the government to “streamline the healthcare delivery process”.
You think there are major drug shortages now, wait until some well-meaning bureacratic panel from HHS decides what will be allowed and what will be manufactured.
I could go on
“Doctors with the means will retire rather than attempt to work under severely controlled government regulations...”
That just means we will have to import our doctors from third world countries.