G. Keith Smith, M.D.

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  • If You Don't Like ObamaCare, Can You Quit?

    If You Don't Like ObamaCare, Can You Quit?

    At a physician's roundtable years ago, I asked Senator Orrin Hatch why I couldn't punch out of Social Security, happy to leave all that I had paid "into the system" on the table. Why couldn't anyone, I asked, willing to leave behind all they had paid in, be allowed to walk away from these entitlements, as long as they were willing to forgo a future claim to these "benefits?"