The Weekly Standard:  “Physician Hospitals of America says that construction had to stop at 45 hospitals nationwide or they would not be able to bill Medicare for treatments.” Stopping construction at doctor-owned hospitals might not seem like the best way to boost the economy or to promote greater access and choice in health care, but that exactly what Obamacare is doing. “

See “War on Doctors,” which states:

“The Democrats’ overhaul was supposed to increase access to health care. Yet construction on 45 hospitals has been shut down due to the legislation. This is a step back, not ahead.  As part of their effort to eventually end all private health care, the Democrats placed a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that in essence shuts down construction of new physician-owned hospitals and blocks existing ones from expanding.”

Investors Business Daily:  “When we said nearly half of U.S. doctors might close their practices or retire early rather than live under the Democrats’ health overhaul, we were heavily criticized. . . . Four in nine doctors responding to an IBD/TIPP poll sent out in August 2009 said they ‘would consider leaving their practice or taking an early retirement’ if Congress passed what has become known as ObamaCare. . . . Now a Merritt Hawkins survey of 2,379 doctors for the Physicians Foundation completed in August has vindicated our poll. It found that 40% of doctors said they would ‘retire, seek a nonclinical job in health care, or seek a job or business unrelated to health care’ over the next three years as the overhaul is phased in.