Lest we forget that the Right lies, at every opportunity and about pretty much anything, they do. Media Matters:
Right-wing media have seized on a dubious, three-month old email "survey" that purports to show that physicians are concerned about health care reform and that 46 percent of the primary care doctors surveyed "indicated that they would leave medicine - or try to leave medicine - as a result of health reform." Many media figures have falsely attributed this survey to the New England Journal of Medicine. For example, on Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade said: "The New England Journal of Medicine has published a report and did a survey, and they said the impact of reform on primary care physicians, 46 percent, they say, feel reform will force them out or make them want to leave medicine."
This is false.
Media Matters for America contacted the New England Journal of Medicine, which confirmed it neither conducted nor published the "survey."
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The "report" that right-wing media are citing actually appeared in Recruiting Physicians Today, which is an employment newsletter produced by "the publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine." According to Zeis, that report actually "was written by the Medicus Firm," the medical recruitment firm that conducted the "survey."
There are concerns for doctors in this bill, one of which is the independent Medicare commission which adds a second layer of of potential cuts on them--which hospitals and PhRMA are exempt from--despite the fact that Congress already has the ability to slow the rise of Medicare payments to physicians. That is a legitimate concern for doctors and one that needs to be addressed before the provision kicks in, if this bill does pass. But are they threatening to leave the field over it? We'd need a legitimate survey to tell us that. This one isn't.