Is there a doctor in the house?

NRO's Critical Condition:

The New England Journal of Medicine's Career Center has a report by the Medicus Firm talking about how the Democrats' health bills would drive doctors out of the profession. According to the report, "nearly one-third of physicians responding to the survey indicated that they will want to leave medical practice after health reform is implemented." At the same time, they report that the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the U.S. will need 22 percent more doctors by 2018. Worse, 46 percent of primary-care docs said that they would leave or try to leave medicine as a result of the proposed overhaul's changes to the system.

Doctors prefer more gradual reform. No kidding. How about TORT Reform that would save billions in defensive medicine tests and in excessive payoffs to fat cat Dem party mainstay trial lawyers.

With Obama"Care" we may end up with Soviet-style medicine. Where many primary care doctors are old crones with herbal remedies. And the elderly were treated as throwaways.