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Obama Doctors' Summit

Written by Sheila Kihne.

I ran across this blog that covered the 9-10 Doctors' Rally, with lots of pictures.

NOT ONE of the major news media outlets covered the rally- including Fox News.

But Obama's Doctors' Summit today, with only 150 physicians there gets top billing. 

The majority of American physicians oppose Obamacare.  But this President doesn't care.  He wants American Doctors and nurses to be full-time employees of the federal government, no matter what they think, no matter what the cost.  He wants the federal government to run medicine like it's running so many other businesses. 

Health care is not a right, it's an industry.  An industry that cares for the sickest of the sick, the poorest of the poor, day in-day out.  It takes amazing, passionate doctors and nurses to do that work.  Adding more crushing bureaucracy to a system already overwhelmed with paperwork and red-tape is going to kill it.  We are not Canada (thank God,) we are not Great Britain, (thank God.) We are a country of massive size and population.  We provide COMPLETELY EQUAL treatment to poor and rich preemie babies, to poor and rich children with leukemia, to poor and rich women with breast cancer.  We ask that you buy insurance, we'd like for you to work to pay for that.  But if you don't, if you can't...the health care industry still takes care of you.  Not the government.  The doctors, nurses and hospital workers take care of you.

Reform is simple.  Provide a pathway to catastrophic-only insurance plans that are highly affordable.  Employers move from buying insurance directly for employees to depositing money into HSA's for employees where they can get the tax benefit.  Use those HSA's to manage and pay for your OWN healthcare and make your own choices.  Be empowered to ask healthcare providers how much services cost.  Move the consumer closer to the transaction- not further away from it.  Move toward a system of individual freedom and personal responsbiilty that is in line with America, instead of to a system that punishes responsibility and pushes communal-thinking that is not in line with America.

The next few weeks do matter. Continue to contact your representatives and let your voice be heard.