This could be the most alarming story yet to come out of the health care debate.

Forget about all the inane squabbling on Capitol Hill. Forget what the polls say. Forget the Tea Party rallies, the town hall meetings, the strong-arm tactics of MoveOn and the SEIU, the debunked sob stories… For a moment, let’s just look at what physicians say they will do if Obamacare becomes a reality.

The Medicus Firm, a national physician search firm, recently surveyed 1,195 doctors, and what they found should shock you more than Nancy Pelosi after another eyelift:

•  46.3% of primary care physicians (family medicine and internal medicine) feel that the passing of health reform will either force them out of medicine or make them want to leave medicine.

AGAIN, for those of you who need a little extra help (like in Louise Slaughter’s district) - almost half of primary care physicians would leave the business! If the bill did not literally call for actual rationed health care, that is exactly the result we would get anyway. Less doctors, means less care. Less care, means rationing. Rationing… dare I say… leads to panels. Yes, panels (be they of the death or life variety) deciding who gets what care and when.

Some other grim findings from the survey:

• 72% of physicians feel that a public option would have a negative impact on physician supply, with 45% feeling it will “decline or worsen dramatically” and 27% predicting it will “decline or worsen somewhat.
• 24% of physicians think they will try to retire early if a public option is implemented.

The physicians take a decidedly more cautioned approach to reform than the president:

• 62.7% of physicians feel that health reform is needed but should be implemented in a more targeted, gradual way, as opposed to the sweeping overhaul that is in legislation.

The New England Journal of Medicine thought enough of the survey to include it on their medical careers site.

People need to wake up and smell the rationing. Although, this doesn’t mean that all these doctors would definitely leave the profession, the real fear among them exists. These doctors may not jump ship, but they are terrified that it could happen. You will not like it when you have to wait months to see your doctor.

It’s come to this - whom do you trust: your doctor or some bureaucrat? These are the people on the front lines of health care, not backroom lobbyists or dizzy politicians.

Make your voice heard - Dick Morris has a list of congressmen who are on the fence. Stop what you are doing and call them now! Your life may very well depend on it: www.dickmorris.com

You don’t have to believe Sarah Palin about Death Panels, just ask your doctor.