Obama’s Own Doctor Thinks ObamaCare Reeks

June 19, 2009 · Filed Under Barack Obama, Health, Video

President Barack Obama’s doctor of 22 years until he entered the White House thinks the Obama health care plan sucks.

Dr. David Scheiner doesn’t think Obama really understands what’s happening on the ground in the medical profession.

…he worries about whether the health care legislation currently making its way through Congress will actually do any good, particularly for doctors like himself who practice general medicine. "I’m not sure he really understands what we face in primary care," Scheiner says.

Scheiner takes a few other shots too. Looking at Obama’s team of health advisors, Scheiner doesn’t see anyone who’s actually in the trenches. "I have a suspicion they pick people from the top echelon of medicine, people who write about it but haven’t been struggling in it," he says.

Scheiner also takes issue with the president’s choice of abortion extremist, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to be the Health and Human Services secretary. He says Sebelius used to be the chief lobbyist for the Kansas trial lawyer’s association.

After making a lot of sense, Dr. Scheiner himself goes off the rails and begins rapidly losing credibility…

What should the president be focused on? Scheiner thinks that a good health reform would be "Medicare for all," a single-payer system where the government would cover everyone and pay for it by cutting out waste in the system. "A neurosurgeon gets paid $20,000 for cutting into the neck of my patient. Have him get paid $1 million a year instead of $2 million or $3 million. He won’t starve," Scheiner says.

I agree that Obama’s current health care proposal is a disaster. However, replacing it with “Medicare for all” is about the nuttiest damn thing we could do.

Single-payer has proven to be a failed system in Europe. Old people are denied certain treatments to save money if a bureaucrat decides the treatment may not save them anyway.

Many of the top life-saving cancer drugs are not available to people in the U.K., because they’re too expensive.

I could spend the entire day listing the pitfalls of a socialized medicine.

Single-payer systems ration health care and deny everyone the kind of quality health care that the United States has always been known for.

Having said that, anyone with a lick of sense knows the ObamaCare public/private plan is nothing but a Trojan horse to lead us to a single-payer system.

Here’s proof: