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 In addition, 56 percent were full or part time owners of their own practices, while 44 percent of physicians were employees.  Well that balance is quickly changing, and most likely, physicians in America will end up becoming employees of hospitals or multi-specialty groups of over 50 doctors.  And that's just physicians - imagine the problems we will have in getting nurses into these major cities.

If you examine the prospective patient groups who will become add-ons to the states' current Medicaid patient volumes, in many areas that could mean 20 to 30 percent of new patients enrolling now on Obamacare.  So I ask you: Do you think you're going to be able to find your private doctor whom you want to see in his private office or the doctor that took care of your mother, father, you and your children?  No, I don't think so.

I think what we're going to see perhaps in five years are health centers in many areas of our country that very much resemble the DMV office, the social security office or the post office.

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