Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
You're saying that no doctors are living in a big expensive neighborhood? Are you 100% sure about that?

No one is going to choose not to become a doctor because they can only make 900k instead of a mil. That would be stupid. I would need more evidence that people become doctors solely because of the money and not because they want to be a doctor, or that its in the publics interest that we pay doctors what they're paid.

Both of these arguments are flimsy at best, definitely idealogical, and aren't good reasons why I should want to repeal Obamacare.
I am not saying that no doctors are living in big expensive neighborhoods. I am saying that the majority of them are living in normal homes, and have normal lives. These changes would impact normal general practitioners the hardest.

You seem to live with the fallacious belief that Obamacare will only reduce the payments to the doctors by 10%, and that everyone will be covered under the new ACA. That couldn't be farther from the truth.

Obama kept mentioning that 47 million did not have health insurance in the US. The CBO estimates that 30 million will STILL NOT be uninsured under Obamacare.
The CBO estimates that between 7 million to 20 million will lose their existing coverage due to Obamacare incentives.

In February, CBO reported that “in 2019 [5 years after Obamacare is implemented], an estimated 12 million people who would have had an offer of employment-based coverage under prior law will lose their offer under current law [aka ‘Obamacare’].” - FORBES

Here is someone else who makes the same points that I make : Look Out Below, The Obamacare Chaos Is Coming - Forbes