We keep hearing republicans describing the ACA as a "dog" and maintain it is bad law. However, specifics of their complaints are rarely explored in a comprehensive way. Even today they are on TV doing whatever they can to frame the ACA as a ticking time bomb. Now, a quick search of the internet will indeed turn up results offering that there is indeed a subset of MD's who do not support the law so much so that some suggest they will leave the field. They even maintain that there could be a future shortage of providers due to the "best and brightest" looking elsewhere for a career based on the implementation of the ACA.
So what is behind this? It appears to me that the providers main beef is a loss of personal income. As unsavory as it is to imagine our health care providers clutching their pearls over income lost due to ACA, are they correct? Do they have a reason to be concerned or are they just being hoodwinked by the right wingers in DC?
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