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A recent editorial published at A Line of Sight details many problems associated with the health care compact, an idea that has begun to take root in many states. The commentary should give doctors, patients and elected officials pause before they conclude the compact is good policy.

The author identifies several problems with the compact, including that:

• The compact is "Not Patient-Centered Health Care Reform"
• The compact is "An Avenue Towards Socialism"
• The compact is "Advancing Government (Not Individual) Control Over Health Care"
• The compact "Will Not Fix the Tax Problems Associated With Health Care" which means, specifically, that the compact will not undo the individual mandate and that it will not repeal ObamaCare's job-killing tax hikes
• The compact will be "A Burden on State Budgets"

In detailing the specific ways in which the compact could lead to a single-payer system in certain states, the author explains quite well the consequences of socialized medicine:

"Doctors would lose out as well as government would eventually go so far as to dictate where doctors could live and work as the government sought to allocate access to care.... Make no mistake about it, at its core, a single-payer system is at odds with individual liberty as embodied in the Constitution. This form of healthcare places government power ahead of individual liberty, allowing government, not free people or free markets, to determine the value of a physician's work through price controls. 

"A single-payer system will enslave doctors, denying them the ability to be fairly compensated for their education, training and expertise. As a single-payer system takes root, it will lead to doctor shortages (price controls inevitably do), rationing of care, and the government deciding the relative worth of individuals in need of medical care - all of these will deny each American access to proper medical care."

"Acceptance of a single-payer system under the Compact is acceptance of all of socialized medicine's consequences. While the leaders of the HCC movement may accept those consequences in their effort to advance the Compact, freedom-loving people should not."

The commentary details ten specific ways that the health care compact is as bad as ObamaCare. You can read the full commentary here.