This is Democracy?
This is the Free Press?
ABC Censors Obama's Longtime Doctor, Dr. Scheiner
Single Payer = Socialism!
END of Story!
Or so we have BEEN TOLD!
Listen to this Single-Payer advocate, explain why it's essential Medicine ...
Even if the Corporate Media, will have None of it,
sometimes these Doctors, in the thick of it, can still be heard ...
Obama's Family Physician Dr. David Scheiner Prescribes Single-Payer for America
(interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! -- clip listed on Micheal Moore's youtube page)
http://www.youtube.com/...
Dr. David Scheiner: ... [Time Mark: 4:42]
Insurance Companies repeatedly interfere with the Care of Patients. The opponents of Health Reform keep saying that if the Government gets into Medicine, 'You won't have a choice of your Doctor. You won't have a choice of your Hospital. Your Care will be Restricted.' I don't know where they got [this] -- Medicare if anything is TOO permissive. Medicare NEVER gets in my way! But [with] Insurance Companies, I have to use special Labs. I have to -- I can use certain Hospitals for one person, but I can't use them for another.
I'm repeated getting responses from the Insurance Company disallowing certain procedures, disallowing certain medications. The Insurance Company is 'in the room' every time I see a Patient. And somehow the Patients think they have free choice. Medicare gives them free choice. They will have their Choice of Doctor, they will have their Choice of Treatment. Within Private Insurance that will NOT be the case -- it is an extraordinary waste of money.
And the Public -- If I had a single point to make about 'What is going Wrong with this Health Reform?' -- is that the Public is SO UNINFORMED! They think somehow that they get the best care in the world -- we know by Health Statistics we're 37th! Even people with good Health Insurance, don't realize that the Health Care they get, is often NOT appropriate. Sometimes they get unnecessary Treatment. ...
"The Insurance Company is 'in the room' every time I see a Patient."
Funny, how we so rarely hear that Message on our National Media!
And were not likely too anytime soon either,
it the current Corporate Catering to their Corporate Clients continues:
The Media gladly enables Canadian Strawmen, while silencing Real Doctors
That's our system!
Some day maybe some brave souls in the Media Machine, will actually do an objective analysis of the "pro and cons", between the various Reform Solutions, even the Canadian- and European-style Solutions!
Do it, for Walter Cronkite -- that man wasn't afraid of the Truth!