WELL, THAT WAS QUICK: Surprise: HHS drops plan to snoop on doctors. “No worries: The program’s not really dead, it’s just … resting. It’ll be back in a few years, once ObamaCare goes into effect and millions more Boomers have landed on the Medicare rolls. That’s when the doctor shortage will really begin to bite.” My doctor has adopted a new phone-tree system that will frustrate all government snooping efforts, by making it impossible for anyone to actually make an appointment.