Private practice medicine in the United States is rapidly going away.  In the past few years, the percentage of doctors who own their own businesses has plummeted.  The middle class, the supposed beneficiaries of Obamacare, can't afford their deductibles and are avoiding necessary treatments and tests because of costs, leading doctors to have to care for them at more advanced stages of disease.  Doctors (and nurses), the highest trained and most knowledgeable providers of patient care, are mostly data input vehicles for the massive electronic medical records systems.  And the amount of money that has been shoveled into the great abyss of the new government bureaucracy is enough to have bought all of us excellent private care, yet our care and our coverage for that care is worse. Before Obamacare, the percentage of physicians owning their own businesses was around 70%.  It is now hovering around 30%.  The reason for the shift is not widely...(Read Full Article)