Posted on 10/06/2009 5:08:05 PM PDT by Kaslin
Politics: The administration stages a photo-op with handpicked doctors who support its health care reform. Fortunately, most doctors still believe that the first rule of medicine is to do no harm.
It would seem some doctors still make house calls. Some 150 of them made one at the White House Monday in an attempt to give a booster shot to the administration's chaotic and stalled health care reform drive.
Rather than a grass-roots uprising of physicians, this was a classic case of AstroTurfing.
Attendance was by invitation only, and 40 of the 150 were said to be members of Doctors for America, a reincarnation of the Doctors for Obama arm of the Obama campaign that boasts of having more than 15,000 members.
The physicians were told to bring their white lab coats with them to make sure the TV cameras to capture the proper image. Those who just showed up wearing suits or dresses were provided with lab coats hastily rustled up.
White House spokesman Reid Cherlin insisted that the doctors "were not invited based on their support for a public option." We'd like a second opinion on that. Doctors for America as an organization embraces a government-run insurance option.
"It just appears that the president of the United States, at this point, is choosing to meet only those who support his agenda," said Dr. Margaret Flowers, a Maryland pediatrician and congressional fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program, a group not invited.
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I see doctors unionizing and going on strike in the not too distant future.
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Nurses and other health related workers affected by this debacle should as well. They COULD easily win this debate by stopping services. When the .gov backs down from their plans, they go back to work. I don't think it would take 48hrs for the politicians to fold like a cheap suit.
They did not realize it was just a photo op for Obambi and those Doctors did not get to bring up their objections!
It would’ve been the screaming lead story on NBC Nightly. Brian mentioned it in passing with a nyuk, nyuk...
Who paid for those white coats? Obama?
Who paid for those white coats? Obama?
silly stuff.
“I see doctors unionizing and going on strike in the not too distant future.”
Not this one. There are other ways to fight these jerks.
The doctors who did not agree with Obama were those who want a single payer system for health care.
In New York there are already unions for doctors.
Have seen them take to the streets on strike.
In this case..its the doctors who will eventually get the bill.
One of the prime objectives of unions is to unionize health care and government workers.
Most union jobs in competitive industries have been shredded.
It appears at this point that the POTUS is a communist crypto-muslim who is hell bent of nationalizing as many industries as possible and securing defeat for Amerika in all foreign wars.
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A BIGGER ENEMY WITHIN THAN HUSSEIN BARAKA OBAMA.
You did, with your tax dollars. :(
In NYC the butchers are unionized
The commie democrats and the mafia share the dues.
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