Obama to Doctors -- Support Death Bill or Take a 21% Pay Cut

The Obama Administration is blackmailing the nation's doctors, telling them to support his health reform — in particular, the provisions on the IMAC and the penalty on doctors who provide the most care, which most doctors oppose — or the Congress will impose a 21% cut on Medicare payments to doctors, which will go up to 40% by 2016. A 1997 law mandated annual cuts in Medicare payments to doctors, but the Congress has postponed the cuts every year. This year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is threatening to impose the cuts if the doctors refuse to join in Obama's killing spree.

According to The Hill newspaper, a meeting was held last week with nearly a dozen doctors' groups, with the core group of Nazi health bill advocates in the Administration and Congress: Reid, Max Baucus, Sen. Chris Dodd, Rahm Emanuel, Peter Orszag, and Nancy-Ann DeParle. Reid made it clear that he expected the doctors to support the broader health care bill, or he would not move the bill to postpone the doctor's pay cuts.

Reid also asked that doctors ease up on demands for medical malpractice reform during the upcoming health care debate.