Obama's former doctor critical of White House health care plan

CNN ^ | 7/30/2009 | Jim Acosta

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama often talks about all of the forces lining up against his health care plan. But there's one critic who has remained relatively mum in the debate.

Dr. David Scheiner was President Obama's personal physician for 22 years.

1 of 2 David Scheiner, a Chicago, Illinois-based doctor, has taken a hard look at the president's prescription for health care reform and sees bad medicine.

"This isn't that kind of health care program that I think is going to work," he said.

So what makes Scheiner so special? He was Obama's personal physician for 22 years, and voted for the former Illinois senator in the 2008 presidential election.

Scheiner thinks the president's plan doesn't go far enough. In his mind, the worst part of the proposal is that "private insurers continue to be a part of the health scheme."

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Scheiner thinks the president's plan doesn't go far enough. In his mind, the worst part of the proposal is that "private insurers continue to be a part of the health scheme."

Obama's doctor thinks the pretense of allowing private insurers to continue to operate should be dropped completely. (Although the restrictions in the Obama plan on private insurance will ensure that they shut down eventually.)

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Damn he even has a Communist Doctor.

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Saw that clip. The illustrious physician is even more left.

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"We don't even fully know what the public option is going to be. If the public option is too good, patients who are sick will flock to it, and I'm not sure it will be able to support itself."

This man is a straight up fool. He wants single payer to "control administrative costs" and provide "large savings to patients". But then he's concerned that sick people will flood the system and overwhelm it? What the heck does the want? I don't think even he knows.