Funny thing about medical care- people don't LIKE going into the doctor's office, with or without insurance. Will they really change all of a sudden, once they actually have coverage? I doubt it if the majority will.

This will inevitably lead to the government actually mandating wellness checkups, and most likely many lifestyle changes also, in order for this theory of care to work. More government involvement in your daily life, in the name of saving money on healthcare. I don't like the thought.

Isn't this something that the so-called 'fearmongers' on the right have been saying all along? Now that this piece of trash has been signed into law, the liberal media is just starting to report on the drawbacks. Where were they before, when they should have been debunking all of the pro-Obama propaganda? They are just as traitorous as Obama and every Congressman who voted for this travesty.

Get ready for rationed health care and reduced services, thank you, Obama voters.

As others before me have so ably pointed out the lack of primary care physicians and even more so primary care physicians who are willing to give away their services at government dictated rates allowed by Medicare/Medicade are in short supply. Makes one wonder what those behind the scene thinkers (you didn't really think that Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi were even close to intelligent enough to write the lines of "code" entailed in this bill did you?) were thinking.

My primary care physician recently gave up his practice to seek a "management" job. He was replaced by a new doctor who shortly thereafter pulled up stakes and went back east. Finding a primary care physician even when I had good company paid for insurance was no easy task. No one is taking new Medicare/Medicade patients. Witness Walgreens no longer taking new Medicade subscribers. So, even though its "free" no one is going to step to the plate to provide it.