Something Fishy This Way Comes...

Very interesting developments today. A White House spokesperson put out a call to forward emails and websites disseminating "fishy" opinions on the current Health Care Destruction Plan directly to the White House website.

Let me give you a moment to digest that...

Yes. I said it. Your President has made it known that he wants you to turn in your neighbors, associates, co-workers, even family members who have "fishy" opinions about health care "reform" as they have designed it. Why? To "fight disinformation", they say.

The real reason? Intimidation. I am nobody. Just an average, ordinary family doctor in an average ordinary town. Does it scare me that the leader of the most powerful nation on the face of the earth wants to enlist my fellow citizens to help to compile a list of people that disagree with him? You bet it does.

I read a very moving speech by a British military officer once. In it, he spoke about the many times he's heard people speak and write about the "fearless" exploits of men in combat. He correctly pointed out that to call these men "fearless" is a great disservice. They were always afraid - often terrified out of their wits. They were not fearless. Instead, they did their great and heroic deeds despite that fear.

Our own Founding Fathers knew that by pledging their "lives, [their] fortunes, and [their] sacred honor" by signing the Declaration of Independence, they were very likely signing their own death warrants.

Heroism isn't what you do because you're unafraid. Heroism is what you do despite being afraid.

I am terrified at the prospect of a government teetering so closely to the edge of absolute totalitarian despotism - so close to it that it feels the need to label people like me as "Nazis" (Nancy Pelosi), "Saboteurs" (Harry Reid), "Extremists" and "Terrorists", "Unruly Mobs", and now, "Disseminators of 'Fishy' Opinions"; so close that it feels it important to compile names and locations of people that disagree with them. I am terrified and heartbroken.

Nevertheless, allow me to follow, in some small way, in the footsteps of the Signers by saying, so that it will be clear to all, that I believe that the attempt to "reform" American Medicine by any means like HR 3200 will be a disaster. Let me further say that I believe that its conception grew out of nefarious, self-serving, socialistic, and unAmerican beliefs held by its authors, the liberal democrats who now hold power. I further believe that those same democrats are cowards of the most despicable stripe, as they are afraid even to face their very own electorates during their August recess, and that their sick, twisted attacks on the American citizens who have taken time out of actually working for a living to come and protest this demented bill (as is their God-given, Constitutionally-protected right) is the worst sort of political elitism.

Again, I ask you. Why do they want this so badly? Why would they jeopardize their entire political careers for this bill? Put yourself in their shoes, but imagine that you are a corrupt, self-serving, elitist, lying politician. What could possibly cause you to put everything on the line?

The only logical explanation is that they believe that securing the power over our health care will give them unspeakably more power than they currently weild. And if this is the case, then this is reason enough to fight it, and to fight those who support it.

My confidants have my login information. If I disappear to a work camp or re-education facility unexpectedly, my site will remain open, God willing.

I literally pray every day that Americans who love their Liberty - dearly-bought with the blood of her sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers - will "humble themselves and pray, and turn from their wicked ways" so that God will hear from heaven and "heal their land".

May He hear us, and deliver us from the spreading evil that threatens to finally quench the shining torch of Liberty from the earth. His will be done.

The American Public Health Association: Traitors

APHA, the association of American public health professionals, has signed on to HR 3200 as well. This comes as no surprise to me.

Public health is becoming to this administration what Josef Goebels was to the Third Reich. They are a rubber stamp, giving the illusion of scientific credibility to the outrageous claims made by democrats. It is one filthy hand washing the other: public health funded entirely by government ensuring that government always has plenty of your money with which to fund them. I speak from experience.

I am currently studying public health, working to earn a Master's degree. What I've discovered is that it should actually be a Master of Arts degree: the art of bilking taxpayers out of their hard-earned money to fund ridiculous, frivolous, and unhelpful studies (oh, and paying yourself a healthy salary in the process). At least I have learned how to debunk their unscientific studies a little more effectively.

The American Psychiatric Association: Traitors

The American Psychiatric Association (APA), the national credentialing group for American psychiatrists, has expressed full support for HR 3200, the House of Representatives' socialized medicine bill.

I'll let you insert your own punch line here.

American Osteopathic Association: Traitors

The American Osteopathic Association, the country's credentialing board for D.O.s (Doctors of Osteopathy), after nearly 100 years of struggling, chips securely on their shoulders, to be respected as equals to M.D.s, have put the debate to rest at last by stupidly signing on to HR 3200, the House of Representatives bill that would destroy American Medicine and patient choice.

Like the ACS, they base their support largely on their mistaken belief that being rid of the SGR as the index that determines Medicare reimbursement will somehow solve all of our problems. They apparently believe that by allowing their support to further propel this anti-American bill through Congress, they will gain a seat at the imaginary table where "changes will be made" that will ultimately make medicine in this country whole again.

Want some advice, D.O.s? (1) Leave the chakra adjustments to the Buddhists, and (2) Never trust the government. They don't plan to involve you or me. They plan to destroy us, and our patients along with us. They want to make you, me, and all our patients so dependent upon them that we can't live or breathe without them (or without paying a tax for the privilege). You shame yourselves by going along with this charade.

American College of Surgeons: Traitors

In a particularly idiotic move, the American College of Surgeons recently expressed their support for HR 3200, the socialized medicine bill authored by the socialist House of Representatives. They based their support on a one-dimensional line of complaint, namely the use of the SGR or "sustainable growth rate" as the index to be used to calculate reimbursement rates through Medicare. HR 3200 promises to scrap the SGR as the index of importance.

Just a couple of problems, though. First, who has ever known Congress, when dominated by either party, to keep promises? Do the 70,000+ members of the ACS seriously believe that this bill will keep anybody in Washington honest? If they do, then this naivete would cause me to seriously question their credentials to perform surgery on kitchen toasters, much less human victims.

Secondly, there is the issue of the utter stupidity of trading one onerous regulatory policy for another, sure-to-be more onerous one, considering that the authors of both strategies have historically shown themselves pathologically incompetent and unwilling to hear logical arguments.

So let me get this straight. The ACS doesn't like the way government decides reimbursements by fiat, so they lend their support to giving more power to that government, so that it is even more capable of deciding reimbursements by fiat. Nice one, ACS. You should be so proud.

American College of Physicians: Traitors

Reading this press release from the American College of Physicians (ACP), the certification board for U.S. Internal Medicine doctors, it becomes clear that they, like many of the other groups on the traitors list, believe that it is better to jump on to the socialized medicine bandwagon now, in the hopes that they can negotiate with the Chicago mobsters for some pittances or indulgences in the future. In short, they sold you and me out for self-interest.

The House of Representatives' socialized medicine bill (HR 3200) is so clearly and fundamentally flawed that it would take an absolute idiot to fail to see that it paves the way for the destruction of American Medicine and the private health care market. And since I have more respect for my fellow doctors than to think them idiots, I have to believe that ACP knowingly and callously allowed their name and their reputation to serve as evidence that doctors were behind this legislation. This gives momentum to this bill that it shouldn't have, or, if you prefer, provides comfort and welfare to our common enemy. For that, the ACP have shown themselves to be traitors.

The AMA: Traitors.

I don't have much to say about the American Medical Association. I think it will say it all if I let you in on a little bit of MOCKBADOC "inside baseball".

When I was preparing my "Consequences" entry, I had to put a good bit of thought into whether I should include the AMA in this group. I had intentionally excluded unions and self-reported communist organizations from the list of "traitors", and the AMA qualifies as both a union (of specialist physicians) and a self-professed communist organization.

In the end, though, I decided to place them in the traitors group because of their undeserved national prominence, and the fact that there are still a few people who haven't gotten the memo on this socialist advocacy group.

Well done, AMA. You made it on the list!