Last week, Obama had a big photo op with lots of white-coated doctors on the White House lawn. These doctors purportedly all endorsed his socialized medicine. The news reported that ". . . 150 doctors, all wearing their white coats, attended a pep rally with President Barack Obama . . ." Here's what you weren't told.
The doctors did not know why they had been summoned to the White House. They thought they were going to have a "sit-down" to tell Obama what they thought. Instead, he told them what they were supposed to think.
They didn't come in their lab coats. Those were handed out at the White House.
Many of those doctors don't agree with Obama's plan at all. Obama said in his rah-rah speech that those doctors didn't swear in their oaths to spend their time handling paperwork and wading through bureaucratic red tape. That their oaths didn't include turning away people who couldn't pay. One of them pointed out that the vast majority of the mounds of paperwork and red tape they wade through are government mandated. She also pointed out that it's the government that tells them they cannot treat a Medicare patient for free.
More of the Obama sleight of hand (and mouth) at work!
"Sides rally on costs vs. coverage." The Dallas Morning News; October 6, 2009; p. 6A.
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