Posted on 09/30/2009 8:01:46 AM PDT by Gopher Broke
The cavalry is here -- and they're in white coats and scrubs: More than a half a million doctors and millions of nurses are joining forces to help pass real health reform.
Americans listen to their nurses and doctors when it comes to health reform -- and for good reason. If we can help them amplify their voices, it'll be a huge boost to our campaign for change.
So we're working on a new television ad featuring their voices explaining why doctors and nurses so strongly support President Obama's plan -- and asking Congress to pass it. We'll run the ad in key states and districts all around the country to show folks where health professionals stand, cut through the spin, and build even greater support for reform.
But to produce and air the new ad before the Senate starts debating a final bill, we'll need to raise $300,000 by Thursday. Please donate $5 right away.
The American Medical Association, Doctors for America, and a dozen other physicians groups representing 500,000 doctors are endorsing reform. So are the American Nurses Association and other organizations representing millions of nurses.
They're speaking out because they see the shortcomings of our health care system firsthand, every day: patients denied the care they prescribe, families losing access to their doctors, and a system that forces them to spend more time with paperwork and less time with patients.
These voices need to be heard -- with so much deception out there clouding the debate, it's critical that medical professionals are able to focus the country on the simple fact that health reform is good medicine.
But the final congressional committee could vote on their reform bill as early as Wednesday -- and debate on final legislation could start by the end of the week. So if we're going to help make these doctors and nurses' voices heard, we'll need to do it right now. Can you chip in $5 or more to help get our ad on the air?
https://donate.barackobama.com/HealthAd
Thanks,
Mitch
Mitch Stewart Director Organizing for America
Doctors supporting Socialized Medicine is like chickens voting for Col. Sanders!!
The bureaucrats are supporting the ending of ‘fee for service’. I assume that means paying health care providers a lump sum like they do in France and Canada.
Health care providers get paid the same whether they work 5 days or 2 days. Guess which schedule they choose. No wonder the wait for a specialist is so long there.
Did it take you that long to discover that the AMA is a socialist organization? If your physician is a member of the AMA I would suggest that you change her or him.
It’s my understanding that only about 19% of doctors belong or believe in the AMA.
~Ping~
"Yes, American medicine is fragmented. We are not represented by one uniform society. Less than 15% of us belong to the AMA and yet the media and your administration continue to speak as if the AMA speaks for all of us. It does not. Although its member physicians have made tremendous contributions to medical advances and patient care, the corporate organization of the AMA is a part of the problem, not a part of the solution"
The Million Med March, Doctors to March on Washington DC October 1, 2009
The AMA is a total fraud, like AARP.
The AMA is a total fraud, like AARP.
Sorry for the double post. User error.
Guess what this means don't go to the Doctor on October 1, they are all busy vacationing in DC.
Yes, and the other 85% of American doctors and nurses disagree with them. (If you're near D.C., join them in their march against Obomas Socialized medicine.)
I think I read that only 17% of active physicians are members of the AMA? Seems like if those docs want this so badly, they could come up with the $300,000.
The bulk of them are med. students who think it will look good on their resume. They haven't even started practicing yet. Most drop their membership after they actually start practicing medicine.
FUMS and your AMA minions.
My doctor says differently, maybe because he is actually a caring doctor that still acts like one, always available as is my very caring hospital and staff.
If you have insurance now you get service immediately. They shouldn’t have to give service to anyone who doesn’t have insurance and anyone who doesn’t have insurance will soon learn the hard way when Zero makes them pay out the nose for it or be fined out the nose.
With bummer’s government run heath fiasco you may or may not get service in a timely manner, if you get it at all even if you have insurance.
If you’re sick you want help now. There can’t be anything good with this government run crap that they’re deep throating us with.
“There can’t be anything good with this government run crap that they’re deep throating us with”
Agreed. And since when did putting something in the hands of government mean LESS paperwork?! That’s ludicrouis!
Yes, and everybody who has seen a doctor in the past 3 months has probably heard how terrible the bills are. My laser eye doctor certainly wasn't looking forward to this thing passing.
Really? Who ever heard of "Doctors for America"? It's probably a new AstroTurf group made up of a small number of physicians and even non-physicians who sign up to make the numbers appear larger than they are. The "dozen of other physicians groups"? What are their names? The guess here is that they are just "dummy" groups fabricated for Obama's health care initiative. "Representing 500,000 doctors"? No way. The figure was probably made up out of thin air, or arrived at by adding purported membership totals of all the "dummy" groups, groups which probably had a great overlap in participation so that the same doctor would be counted in the total multiple times in order to vastly inflate the total. Even the AMA itself represents less than 20% of practicing physicians today, and many (if not most) of those members do not support the pro-ObamaCare position of the AMA leadership.
So, all in all, Mitch Stewart has, for clearly political reasons, grossly overestimated the support of for "reform" (i.e., socialized medicine) within the medical profession. Hardly surprising. Lies, fraud, and deception are just standard operating procedure for the Left as it aims to enslave America to ever expansive government.
Your doctor friend is correct.
Makes me sick after the statistics that came out about how many doctors would QUIT if these types of bills passed... Does anyone know what pecentage 500,000 doctors is in our nation by chance? I’m really wondering how many doctors are trying to speak for ALL doctors on this...
Wonder what lie he promised them? Why don’t these people wiseup?
Dictators have no friends.
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