But Obama is merely the most current and powerful of a long list of leftist politicians that have been demeaning and insulting the medical profession publicly ever since the idea of socialized medicine became a cause celebre for them, starting way back in the early twentieth century in the US and even earlier in Europe.
The reasons for this lie primarily in the left's realization that you can't bring about socialized medicine without government propaganda and policy calculated to produce a feeling of unease among the masses with regards to the competence of the medical care that the "private" sector provides. Plus, moving the medical care system toward ever increasing government control is aided and abetted by belittling the physicians' status in society, lowering the medical profession's image of itself, and thereby reducing resistance within the profession to ever more statist hegemony over their professional and personal lives.
Thanks justiceseeker93.