More medical doctors are adding their names to the list of those outraged over the recent passage of the healthcare reform bill.



Dr. Hal Scherz, president of Docs 4 Patient Care (D4PC), tells OneNewsNow the new healthcare law makes doctors government employees.

Dr. Hal Scherz"It gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services the mandate to put together the clinical protocols that doctors who wish to contract privately with insurance companies must adhere to," he explains. "If they don't adhere to those rules, for the first time ever in American history, it will prevent the private interaction between one group of citizens with a business."

Dr. Scherz, a pediatric urologist, predicts as a result of the new legislation, more doctors will retire while less-qualified young people will go into medicine. He believes a critical doctor shortage will ultimately force nurse practitioners, physician's assistants, and others to become the primary caregivers for Americans.

"They're all very capable and good professionals, but they are not physicians," the D4PC president contends. "People are going to have to get used to the fact that their healthcare is going to be delivered by people like that, and they may not like it, but that's what they voted for in 2008...elections have consequences."

He says it is "the beginning of the end of the greatest healthcare system that the world had ever seen." [link to www.onenewsnow.com]