Leslie I have argued with you about this on several occasions, and I publicly must confess I feel you are 100% on target. We will be Drafted in the national health service if it suits the federal government, or our president (who ever he or she may be at the time, as our dysfunctional congress has created an environement where no one is upset that the president must act by executive order or by appointments when congress is in recess, completely eliminating the troublesome checks and balances).
Initially we can all drop out of Medicare, with our patients paying us a few dollars cash for office visits, and Medicare will happily take the savings to underwrite the enormous overhead of the HHS juggernaut. Even if it gets down to one Doctor still a provider for only one patient, I would not be expecting any cut back in the size or staff of the medicare system. They will only howl when the public complains they can't find a doctor. And the solution will not be a pay raise or a cash incentive, it will be a draft card!
