Posted by
The Proud Ex-Democrat on Tuesday, October 06, 2009 8:06:50 PM
Yesterday President Obama staged a nice little photo-op at the White House. He invited 150 doctors who support his health care reform agenda, at least one from each state, to drop by and stand next to him as he called on Congress to pass his plan. In his remarks the President said, "no one has more credibility with the American people on this issue than you do."
I couldn't agree more. Trouble is photo-ops are not opinion polls, and I can probably find at least one doctor from every state who thinks Elvis is still alive. But the facts are still that about two-thirds of doctors oppose the Democrat's plans, especially on the so-called "public option." That was the finding of this poll by Investor's Business Daily. That's the same poll we quoted last week that showed about 45% of doctors would consider doing something else for a living if the President's plan passes.
Three doctors, who also all happen to be former Presidents of the American Medical Association, we're not invited to the White House yesterday. That's because they disagree with Mr. Obama and so do not fit the clean and neat health care reform narrative. Fortunately for us they did choose to share their thoughts on all of this by writing about it in the Wall Street Journal.
If you want to connect with an organization that really represents doctors on this issue, I recommend: http://docs4patientcare.org/. They are very focused on seeing to it that any reform be empowering to patients and doctors and the relationship between the two. They've been lobbying and sponsoring events on the issue for the last month, and are way more broadly based than the 150 hand-picked physicians we saw at the White House yesterday.