The Hill published a story today about the Florida Medical Association meeting next month to decide whether to severe its ties with the American Medical Association for supporting ObamaCare.

The resolution charges the AMA for “failing to lead and represent America’s physicians and the American people on the signature medical legislative issue of this century.”

Florida Medical Association—which represents over 20,000 physicians in Florida—states “Congress is forcing doctors nationwide to limit the number of Medicare patients they treat or to opt out of the system altogether… Congress did nothing to fix the formula Medicare uses to pay doctors. Each year for the last decade, physicians have faced severe payment cuts that make it harder for them to continue caring for their Medicare patients. Congress is well aware of the problem, but instead of working out a permanent solution, it has placed Band-Aids on a gaping wound.”

When ObamaCare first passed, Democrats refused to include the “doc fix” in the legislation because they wanted to hide the true cost of the bill. According to the CBO, permanently fixing the problem would have added another $59 billion to the health care bill’s cost. Instead of taking the challenge head on as they promised, Congressional Democrats passed a 6-month extension passing it onto the next Congress, giving physician a 2.2% pay raise and preventing a 21% cut in Medicare pay rates.

FMA would like Congress to repeal the Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula and replace it with a permanent solution. They support Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of ObamaCare and his recently released health care plan.

Doctors from around the country went to the AMA’s annual policymaking meeting to voice their concerns. New AMA president Dr. Peter Carmel has promised he will hold Congress more accountable since health care reform “didn’t get our doctor issues at all solved.”

This all comes after the March-April issue of the New England Journal of Medicine which stated 46.3% of primary care physicians intend on leaving medicine if ObamaCare passed. America already has a major shortage of primary care physicians. The AP recently wrote a story on how ObamaCare will lead to longer lines and less access to care. The Hill also discussed how newer mandates might actually turn away those who are already sick. And the New York Times also confirmed what we all have been warning, that new mandates are forcing insurance companies to limit patient choice of their own doctors.

All of these issues as well as the failure of Congress to address medical liability reform which causes doctors to practice defensive medicine and increases premiums, will be sure to come up in next months annual meeting in Florida. This system-wide politicization of medicine is what free market advocates fought so long and so hard to prevent.