Democrats Propose Enslaving Doctors

I foresaw that doctors would refuse Medicare patients en masse in the wake of ObamaCare, and I forsaw that this would be a major policy problem for the statist left in terms of healthcare policy.  I said they'd likely resort to their least attractive political instinct, coercion.

What is the government's response when a large chunk of the very best doctors tell patients who carry a government insurance card to beat it? Can the government demand that these doctors treat patients? Is this practical, let alone constitutional? I doubt it.

Well, it looks like Dems are revving up the coercion machine as ObamaCare hits the skids.

As a sign of what may be to come as ObamaCare crumbles before our eyes, a Democratic candidate for the House of Delegates in Virginia has suggested legislation to force doctors to treat Medicare and Medicaid patients. 

And, of course, we know what this policy really is...slavery.

UPDATE:  More here, and it won't surprise that Reagan was way ahead on this notion.