As Healthcare Reform Takes Hold, 74% of Physicians Will Retire, Seek Other Alternatives

Healthcare reform will usher in a new era of medicine in which physicians will largely cease to operate as full-time, independent, private practitioners accepting third party payments, and instead, they will work as employees, as part-timers, as administrators, in cash-only "concierge" practices, or they will walk away from medicine altogether, according to a new report commissioned by The Physicians Foundation.