Doctors against Obamacare
Blogger El Marco is in Washington, D.C., and e-mailed a few pics from the Doctors against Obamacare rally yesterday. He writes: “On September 10, 2009, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals came to Washington, D.C. from across the country to show their opposition to Obamacare. This rally exploded the government-created myth that there is unanimity amongst health care professionals for Democrat plans to take over health care.”
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That first sign says it all …
FIRST!!!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I also want to know which article and section of the Constitution these people think they are using to justify taking over a sixth of the country’s economy, which is already in a collapse of colossal proportions.
Why aren’t more people demanding this as well?
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Doctors of color against Obama? Not possible. Must be a Photoshop job. Not possible…. not possible….
the skeptic says…
But did you call anyone for their statement?
That is a slogan that could resonate.
Sadly, FDR managed to bully the SCOTUS into overturning 150 years of precedent, and as a result the government now has essentially unlimited power under the misconstrued “general welfare” clause.
We need to get some power-hungry governors to organize and repeal the 17th Amendment before we have a prayer of returning to the small federal vision of the majority of the founders.
But….but…. there are black people there……I thought opposition = racism??
Dr. Tom Coburn is against it, too.
Uh-uh. You are #803951
The commerce clause is another basis for the current power of the Federal government.
The commerce clause was intended to prevent the states from having trade disputes and unequal tarrifs. Now, any activity that affects interstate commerce or uses the instrumentalites of interstate commerce (phone, mail, internet) can be regulated. That interpretation expands the limited enumerated powers of the Federal governemnt to a basically unlimted scope. That is not what was intended.
How does the repealing the 17th help? I think we need SCOTUS to get us back to the original intent.
Love the X-ray! Classic!
I’ve been giving to the League of American Voters for their anti- Obamacare ads. Others may want to consider doing so as well.
“The efficiency of the Postal service. The sustainability of Social Security. And all the compassion of the IRS.”
That tagline should be in the commercials.
Just once, could you let the scales fall from your eyes?
You’re just a contrarian, and not a very good one at that.
Tort reform….
“Sebelius hopes to announce within a month the location and scope of demonstration projects to curb frivolous lawsuits and, possibly, reduce the use of so-called defensive medicine to avoid them, an administration official told FOX News.
“The president has asked the secretary to move forward on this issue, he highlighted in his speech and the secretary is committed to carrying out the president’s wishes,” the official told FOX News.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/10/white-house-vows-action-malpractice-reform/
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I caught the last part of a conversation last night on Fox but is it true that one of Sebelius’ jobs prior to becoming the secretary was to lobby for trial lawyers in an attempt to stop tort reform? If so THIS is the person who we can trust to fix this now?
How dumb does Obama think the American people are?
Calif Red, the 17th takes power away from Washington and gives it to the governors.
Unless the governors are on board, we can’t amend anything about the Constitution, like the Commerce Clause.
He’s right though. A friend of mine got the same letter. He donated though.
Oh, if only you were as skeptical of the lies liberals, Democrats and Obama (but I repeat myself) tell you on a daily basis…
By the way, Slate isn’t exactly an objective source either.
Welllll …. the American people did elect him to the most powerful position on the planet, didn’t they?
So just how stupid do YOU think the typical American voter is? I think she’s a ******* imbecile.
that doctor’s sign is perfect. no one ever seems to challenge president obama when he claims medicare works well. if he couldn’t print money, but had to operate as a company and make a profit (aka next years expansion funds) medicare would have been bankrupt by 1972.
I like those signs.
As far as RSS’s link to Slate. Good for whomever it is that’s attempting fight ObamaCare. I see nothing wrong with the letter or the tactic. It’s a lot more up front than most Democrat attempts to raise funds.
Don’t be so hard on RSS. He understands that any opposition to Obama or his agenda is purely manufactured by the RNC out of racism.
You too can see the truth. Just take a sip of this grape Flavor-Aid…
even my military provider and most of his staff don’t like dear leader…
I saw this on
MSNBC and CNN and ABC and NBC and CBSTo paraphrase P.T.Barnum:
“There’s an Obama voter born every minute.”
Sebelius served as executive director and chief lobbyist for the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association. I doubt any meaningful tort reform will happen with her overseeing it. Everything will be smoke and mirrors, studies, recommendations etc… The Dems will not do anything to anger this powerful and generous interest group. It is the soul of the party.
okey dokey.
The point remains that the physicians I know are usually booked in clinic, therefore too busy to be in a protest. But they also tell me that they despise this so-called reform, and will fight to keep it from passing.
doctors and hospitals are going to suffer the most in the whole thing. A ‘public option’ will use the Medicare reimbursement rates that are less than doctors and hospitals need to stay open.
If Obamacare passes, you’ll have very expensive insurance, but hospitals and doctors will go out of business. It should be redubbed ‘Obamainsurance’ because there won’t be any care involved when the doctors and hospitals close their doors due to lack of funding.
I would imagine that if Obamacare passes, the Proctologist’s will reap many dollars after the numerous visits from the U.S. Citizenry – especially the seniors.
1. Being a skeptic doesn’t mean you’re right.
2. Did all those health care professionals in the pics get duped into holding signs and protesting? Or were they really just stand-ins wearing lab coats and pretending to be health care providers?
I am here in DC right now. I came on a whim, and I attended the rally. Doctors and nurses are angry. The understand the failed Medicare system and how practices can’t survive on the reimbursement scale the gov’t uses for that. I’ll be here tmrw for the march and document the entire event with my camera.
Exactly. It just measn you are supercillious.
Obviously, Obama thinks Americans are very dumb.
That would surely cause RSS’s head to explode.
Keep drinking your kool-aid RSS like a good sheep.
Once again, & just for bona fides; am now in my 25th year of practice. Every one of my class mates are against this madness. Every one of my local doctor friends are against this. All of their doctor friends are as well. This is all across the country. My last pt visit last night was with a person who was born & lived in the U.K. until about the mid 90′s. She thinks if you are against “health care reform”, you’re a pig. She claims all of her friends in Europe just love their health care, & in England the tax rate is only 28%. The poor, misdirected woman. I have tried to tell her this is not about health care at all, but she just doesn’t get it. Perhaps I shouldn’t talk like this with a patient, but a doctor’s job is to educate.
Apparently, we are.
Where does that woman practice, I need a new doctor! The x-ray tells me she has a sense of humor….wait, she’s black and conservatives are all racists, what to do, what to do….
So let me see if I understand it – wealthy white women with duct-taped cars (for street cred) claiming to be doctors are for Obamacare and so are all over the news, but actual doctors including those of color who oppose it are openly ignored by the media. Check.
The ObamaCare Prevailing Wage question needs to be brought up.
How will Obamacare square up with paying less than the ‘prevailing wage’ to doctors and nurses providing care to low income Medicare and Medicaid patients. Union Politicians vehemently demand union workers on low income schools and roads projects be paid the ‘prevailing wage’. Why the exception when it comes to paying doctors and union nurses the prevailing wage for Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare?
If not paying the prevailing wage for health care workers is the accepted standard, couldn’t eliminating the prevailing wage for other union workers provide enough savings to help fund a lot of health care insurance for the poor?
It’s always been a fact that some people learn better by being shown. Sadly, if this happens, we will all have less medical care, less freedom and less choices for not just health care but food, energy, and other luxuries that we take for granted here.
Hopefully this patient of yours is young enough to not require a lot of medical care in the near future. She may find out the hard way that the European style of medicine has its consequences to the aged and chronically sick.
The El Marco link doesn’t work for me – anyone else having the problem?
Actually, MarcoPolo, what we need to do is to change the 17th Amendment. Right now, the U.S. Senators are elected by popular vote. Basically, that makes the senators just two representatives-at-large for the largest urban area in the state. In the case of the People’s Socialist Quagmire of California, LA-LA land elects both senators.
Here’s the fix. Each county (or similar administative district) gets one vote. If you win the popular vote in that county, you get it’s vote. If you win the majority of counties, you win the election. This way, (using CA as an example), Sierra County has just as much say in the election of IT’S U.S. Senators as does LA County. Think of it as an electorial college for each state.
This way, if you want to be a U.S. Senator, you have to visit every single county in your state. Can you imagine Barbara Boxer trying to sell her socialist snake oil to a thousand voters at a debate in the Tri-County Grange Hall? I don’t think so.
I like it.
Just look at all those racists.
Just look at all those rich doctors trying to keep their way of life while the poor get poorer and have no access to health care.
/lgm comment
try this
I loved the sign (in the full story) that said “No crisis in veterinary care–why? No government involvement!”
In Obama’s world lawyers = good and doctors = evil.
That pretty well sums it up…
Thanks for the link. Now I know who to call if I need an x-ray in Atlanta.
I just checked a Government web site:
We Spent $974b on total Medicare and Medicaid in 2007.
The LIAR told us during his speech at the joint session last Wednesday that there is $600b worth fraud and waste in the program.
If true, that is 60% of the total expenditure on the Government run health care.
Two questions:
Why is this FOOL intent on screwing up the entire Health care delivery system when he already knows where to focus his energies?
If more than half of a Government run program is fraud and wasted, why does he want to make it even bigger?
vitodio @5:29PM
“where to focus his energies”
All bureaucrats would rather tear down the bathroom and rebuild it, rather than fix the leak under the sink.
We need to start pushing now for whatever bill they come up with to be posted 5 days in advance of the vote for review – like BO promised with his “transparency” statements, and unlike they did for the stimulus and crap & tax bills.
We have momentum now and we are winning battles.
Start posting this everywhere and contacting Congress-critters about it. Get talk radio to start pushing for this too.
This is our only hope if the Dems try the nuclear option.
Wish I could have gone, but I have work. Had a patient with mito disease, possibly developing pneumonia again. Under Obamacare, this 20 year old wouldn’t have that problem today. She would have been gone a long time ago. Good news though; she was “approved” for a wheelchair. The original decision was that she didn’t need one. (?). I suppose the government originally thought that the parents could just carry her in the fireman’s carry. I can just imagine total government health care for my patients. “Hello. Your child has pneumonia? Well, good news, I can fit you in February 12, 2010, at 3pm. Family just called to cancel that time, right after the funeral. Meanwhile, give the child some tylenol, until then. Oh, you’re here in the U.S., illegally? Heck, bring her right in!”
I was there with my sister and other friends in the tea party movement!!!! It was an awesome sight! Now, on today to the March on Washington. Let’s reclaim our country.
“How will Obamacare square up with paying less than the ‘prevailing wage’ to doctors and nurses providing care to low income Medicare and Medicaid patients.”
And why on God’s green earth are there nursing unions supporting Obamacare? Do they not have any kind of clue?
I just don’t get it. You’d think all the health care based unions would be screaming bloody murder. The only way cost are going to be cut is if salaries are cut as well.
Why is any union supporting something that for its members will result in lower wages?
Soooooo, the real drive behind and why unions are supporting Obamacare must be something other than health care hey?