August 1st, 2012

Written by Loren Heal

Physicians reacted with shock and anger to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the President Obama’s health care law, according to poll data and the leaders of activist groups, which are continuing to fight the law in court and via political action.

According to Kathryn Serkes, cofounder of the Doctor Patient Medical Association, a recent nationwide poll sponsored by her organization found 83 percent of U.S. physicians have considered leaving their practices due to President Obama’s law.

“This not just something that started today, and it’s not something that just started with passage” of Obama’s law, said Serkes. “There have been developments in medicine that have made it very, very difficult and have put some seriously different pressures on doctors. But this bill has certainly brought things to a head.”

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KWTV 7/31/2012 5:46:44 AM:

"...the executive director of oklahoma's medical board said there were similar rumblings back in 1965 -- concerned that medicare was going to ruin healthcare in america. then the same thing happened when medicaid came along. the panic... is because it's a mystery. nobody really knows just how it's going to affect a Doctor's current role. and that has brought anxiety about government intervention."

DPMA member Kathy Hansen, MD on Fox News Huckabee. 

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Jul 10, 2012 - 2:31 - Survey shows deep discontent after health care law

Dr. Marc Siegel, MD discusses on FoxNews the DPMA national survey results that 83% of doctors are considering quitting with the current direction of medicine

Paper promises don’t mean actual care

By Kathryn A. Serkes and Dr. Mark Schiller

Thursday, July 5, 2012

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/5/obamas-bait-and-switch/?page=2

When a store pulls a bait and switch, it is called fraud. The store is likely to be prosecuted, pay hefty fines and will bend over backward to keep its bad behavior from public view.

But when the government does it, it is called health care reform, and it pays public relations people millions to promote it, and we taxpayers foot the bill for the whole shebang.

What the group of largely young people cheering outside of the Supreme Court don’t understand is that all they have won is the right to a piece of paper that says they are “insured.” But that’s not the same as real medical care, which they will need eventually even if young and healthy now.

The individual insurance mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the government version of bait-and-switch tactics. It’s like the store that advertises a phenomenal deal on large-screen televisions. But when you get to the store, you find out there aren’t any left because they only had one at the store at the start. Remember the saying “if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is”?

So to find out if the promise of instant access to care with the wave of the government wand is too good to be true, we decided to ask doctors - you know, the people who actually treat patients - what they think.

They gave us an earful.

Kathryn Serkes on Dr. Orders Show 6-29-12

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Listen to DPMA Founder, Kathryn Serkes on WTNT from June 28th, 2012!

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NBC4's Michael Brownlee interviews Dr. Marcy Zwelling about the Supreme Court's health care decision...

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DPMA 's Kathryn Serkes on American Adversaries Originally Aired on www.660worl.com June 19th, Tuesday 5:30 PM EDT