Professional groups aren´t spearheading California´s doctor rebellion against Obamacare

◼ California’s budding doctor rebellion against Obamacare appears to be genuinely spontaneous, lacking leadership from a single individual or organization. - Richard Pollock/Washington Examiner

As the Washington Examiner has reported in recent days, an estimated 70 percent of California´s physicians -- ranging from general practitioners to specialists -- are "just saying no" to Obamacare´s Covered California health insurance exchange.

Although it appears leaderless, some observers believe that very spontaneity may make the doctor rebellion a formidable force in California’s health-care future.

“Doctors are realizing what is happening and spontaneously they are acting like this. There’s a movement growing,” said Sally Pipes, president of the San Francisco-based Pacific Research Institute and an Obamacare critic.

Pipes said an insurrection without leadership sometimes is the most lethal kind to force change.

“It’s not like having someone at the head to say ‘You have to do this, you have to do that.’ This is much much more powerful, in that doctors individually are coming to this realization, and are not by being told,” Pipes said.