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One of the unintended (but certainly predictable) consequences of ObamaCare is that: "employers are being forced to drop their coverage in order to remain profitable. Thus, many of their employees will have no choice but the state exchanges for health care coverage."

"Small business is the lifeblood of the American economy, and employers are now being forced to reckon with new health care coverage mandates on top of a host of new and costly regulations in other areas. All of these regulations are expensive barriers that discourage entrepreneurship and job creation."

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After receiving the prestigious Salvatori Prize from the Heritage Foundation, Dr. Hal Scherz, the founder and president of Docs 4 Patient Care, sat down for an interview with Heritage's own Insider Online. During the course of that interview, Dr. Scherz offered his perspective on health care reform, which is also reflected in D4PC's Prescription for Healthcare Reform:

"The problem with Obamacare is that it is a top-down system. It is government-run. President Obama and his supporters believe that the government is better at making health care decisions than patients are, and that is just absolutely flat out wrong. Patients need to be in charge of their health care. Patients need to be the ones who can purchase insurance and get tax credits like employers. Patients need to be the ones to decide who their doctor is going to be and they have to be the ones who decide how they are going to pay for it and not let a third party pay for it. We have to revamp the entire health care delivery model so that people are in charge through high-deductible health savings accounts, so that the first dollar out is their dollar and not the insurance company’s or the government’s. Whoever is controlling the payment of health care is controlling the health care of the individual. That should be the patients and not the government or insurance companies."

Read the full interview here.  

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On Thursday, Dr. Hal Scherz, founder and president of Docs 4 Patient Care, received the prestigious Salvatori prize from the Heritage Foundation for his dedication to fighting a government takeover of health care that violates the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship.

Hadley Heath with the Independent Women's Forum wrote a blog post congratulating Dr. Scherz, and we wanted to share some of her comments here.

"This reminds me of a scene from the movie 'The Patriot.' The pastor of a small town leaves to go with the militia to fight the British. Although he recognizes that it's not normally the role of a pastor to fight in a war, he tells his congregation, 'A shepherd must tend his flock, and at times, fight off the wolves.'

"This is how I see Dr. Scherz: His number one mission, like so many doctors, is to serve his patients. But at times, the doctors who care most about their patients must fight back against the bad policies that threaten their ability to do so.

"I congratulate Dr. Scherz, and all the members of Docs 4 Patient Care, for the great work they are doing."

Read the full post here. 

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Mr. Meese, Heritage Foundation Leadership, Heritage members and guests

I want to thank you for this great honor and let you know how humbled I am to be up here today receiving an award that I’m not sure that I truly deserve. Standing up here before so many great Americans and being recognized for an effort that I consider to be part and parcel with the very reasons that I became a doctor seems a bit odd. So many very important people and organizations have stood before you to receive this award previously- the Tea Party, the great author David McCullough and the Federalist Society, to name a few. To be mentioned in the same sentence as these former recipients simply takes my breath away.

Many of you are probably asking the question that I would be if I were sitting where you are- who is Hal Scherz and why is HE getting an award like this? 

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Photo by Shealah Craighead / The Heritage Foundation

Docs 4 Patient Care Founder and President Dr. Hal Scherz received the prestigious Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship from the Heritage Foundation at a luncheon earlier today.

"Noted physician and health care advocate Hal C. Scherz of Atlanta today was awarded The Heritage Foundation’s 2011 Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship.

"Dr. Scherz, managing partner of Georgia Pediatric Urology, in 2009 founded Docs 4 Patient Care, a voluntary association of medical practitioners. The group’s mission: to champion sensible health care reform while promoting quality of care and affordable access for all.

"'A modern-day Paul Revere, Hal Scherz set out to warn his profession and his fellow citizens of the federal government's bureaucratic destruction of the American health care system through the takeover that came to be known as Obamacare,' said Matthew Spalding, vice president of American studies at The Heritage Foundation...."

Read the full press release from the Heritage Foundation here, and read Dr. Scherz's acceptance remarks here.

Congratulations Dr. Scherz! 

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