Seven months after Obamacare’s passage, the Senate’s two doctors have conducted a “check-up” on the highly unpopular health care overhaul, the passage of which is about to cost the Democrats their nearly 80-seat advantage in the House and possibly even their 18-seat advantage in the Senate (where two more doctors, Rand Paul (R., Ky.), M.D., and John Boozman (R., Ark.), O.D., will likely be among the GOP newcomers). 

As doctors Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) and John Barrasso (R., Wyo.) show in their report, entitled “Grim Diagnosis,” Obamacare wouldn’t reform our health care system but would deform it — by injecting the federal government into the middle of the private relationship between doctor and patient.  Moreover, as Drs. Coburn and Barrasso write, Obamacare would increase “costs to patients, consumers, and taxpayers, while exacerbating many existing problems in health care.”