Doctors might not take the bribe. An informal online survey by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) so far shows that 90 percent of more than 1,100 respondents answer “No” to the question “Should doctors take the ‘Stimulus’ money to computerize their offices?”

In addition to the fact that the supreme law of the land, our U.S. Constitution, does not authorize the government takeover of medicine, or government intrusion and meddling in the practice of medicine, ObamaCare will make medical care:

1. Will we have individual control of our healthcare insurance and services? The Republicans presented cogent ideas for free market, patient-centered, lower cost options to improve healthcare delivery and private insurance.

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2. Will Washington control our healthcare options? Democrats continued their aggressive push on a radical agenda to transform 1/6 of our economy by government regulation of healthcare with federal panels to tell us what options we are allowed. The Democrats plan is clear: ram their agenda through on the devious tactic of “reconciliation,” AN OBSCURE BUDGET PROCEDURE never intended for such massive social transformation of our economy and infringement of our freedom.

If the “reconciliation” tactic fails, “Plan B” focuses on “insurance reform”–setting up government-dictated coverage and price controls for private insurance companies.

The debate raging over ObamaCare has been carried on mostly by politicians, pundits, policy wonks and economists, with little input from those most intimately involved with delivery of health care—medical practitioners. Doctors have too often been marginalized as self-interested. If that were true, there would be far fewer practicing physicians. Of course we are concerned with income, as are all taxpayers and businesses faced with rising costs and taxes. Unlike other businesses, however, most doctors are unable to pass higher costs to consumers due to price controls on reimbursement. When costs outpace income, bankruptcy ensues. This renders discussions of autonomy moot.

Autonomy, for physician and patient, is central to the medical profession and dates back to Hippocrates: “I will prescribe regimen for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment. I will keep them from harm and injustice.

The three fixes proposed by Obama at the Feb 25 Blair House summit, she said, are to improve affordability for the middle class, and thus access; to close the “doughnut hole” in the Medicare prescription drug benefit; and to eliminate the “Nebraska fix” to give “equity” to all the states in paying for the Medicaid expansions.

Obama himself spoke for 119 minutes, longer than the 110 minutes used by Republicans from whose ideas he purportedly wanted to learn. (Other Democrats spoke for 114 minutes.) But as Obama said, he can go overtime: “I’m the President.”

These 11 pages do not start with a blank sheet of paper, as Republicans recommended, but with the 2,000-page Senate bill. They are getting a disproportionate amount of commentary, but amount to little difference.

“A bipartisan clunker is still a clunker,” says George Watson, D.O., President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). “We say junk the clunker.”

It’s not the health care system that is broken, stated Mark Kellen, M.D., immediate past president of AAPS. “Government is broken,” he said.

Not only that: government is broke.