Angry Docs Say Proposed Government-Run Health-Care Plan Will Drive Physicians out of Medicine

(CNSNews.com) - You do not have to be a brain surgeon to see that government-run health-care will bode ill for doctors and medicine, says Dr. David McKalip of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

But McKalip, who happens to be a St. Petersburg, Fla.-based neurosurgeon, predicts an eventual mass exodus of doctors out of medicine if Congress passes a health-care reform bill that contains a mandatory government insurance option.

“I think you’ll see an incremental change where doctors will be squeezed so hard, they will simply start migrating out of medicine,” McKalip said at a unique virtual town meeting broadcast on the Internet Thursday evening.