[Mom MD]

I make a lot less than most people would think. But I will not surrender my freedom to practice the best medicine I know how and make even less than I do now. If national health care gets instituted, I WILL find something else to do. And I am not the only physician I know that feels this way. There will be an even larger influx of foreign docs to cover the holes after many of us quit.

[gas_dr]

I make a lot less than most people would think

Probably because you are hiding it in your massive offshore accounts that are only available to the greedy rich.

Or probably because you are just a generalist primary care doc instead of a mighty and highly trained specialist. Which is it? :)

[KoRn]

"There will be an even larger influx of foreign docs to cover the holes after many of us quit."

We are already covered up with them in rural areas.

[buccaneer81]

There will be an even larger influx of foreign docs to cover the holes after many of us quit.

True. My ex-wife is from Western PA, Eastern OH. The chances are good that it will be a Pakistani MD treating you in East Liverpool, OH.

[Harrius Magnus]

Unfortunately, Mom, unless you are a retainer PCP, you already are working under a form of socialized health care - a oligopsony with Medicare leading the few.