Docs 4 Patient Care

Are you sick of all the media's spin on health care reform? Wonder whether the AMA really speaks for doctors on this issue? Well, I have just the website for you:
Docs 4 Patient Care
http://docs4patientcare.org/

From this site:
"Attempting to enact his big-government health care scheme, President Obama and his supporters frequently claimed that a “majority” of doctors supported his health-care plans. When the American Medical Association – which had opposed HillaryCare – signed onto Obama’s plan last year, the organization seemed to make the President’s case. Most people assumed that the AMA represented most of the doctors in the country. But in fact, the AMA represents less than 20 percent of all physicians in the United States. And yet as the organization’s leadership moved more to the left, it held a near monopoly on media attention on issues pertaining to public health. No longer."


This site gained national prominence from a Wall Street Journal piece by Docs 4 Patient Care President Hal C. Scherz, MD:
"Dear Patients: Vote to Repeal ObamaCare"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703369704575461840575037482.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

The basic message of the piece is: Democrats realize that the health care legislation they rammed through is not at all popular, so now they're saying they will fix it. DON'T BELIEVE THEM.

"Dear Patient: Section 1311 of the new health care legislation gives the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and her appointees the power to establish care guidelines that your doctor must abide by or face penalties and fines. In making doctors answerable in the federal bureaucracy this bill effectively makes them government employees and means that you and your doctor are no longer in charge of your health care decisions. This new law politicizes medicine and in my opinion destroys the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship that makes the American health care system the best in the world."


And if you do nothing else, please check out this slide show describing the new health care reform legislation:
"Health Care Reform: What the new law really says" by Jill Q. Vecchio, MD
http://www.slideshare.net/jqvd4pc/healthcare-reform-talk-6-6-2010


Meanwhile, on the left, here is an article by John Walsh:
"The Health Insurers Pretend to Cover Us; and We Pretend to Pay the Premiums"
"Fighting Back Against ObamaCare "
http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh08102010.html

All the predicted ill effects of government-run health care are coming true in Massachusetts.

And the worst part about it is that as the systems such as what we have in Massachusetts, and now in the country as a while, fail there will be a belief that we need a single-payer system. That is, the overlords on the left are okay with a flawed health care reform bill. All they needed to do was pass something, ANYTHING. Then when it fails (which it will), they will assert that we need total government control.

As always, we don't need more government, we need LESS.