Healthcare Reform Is About To Rise From The Dead

Big Goverment has posted an article by Matt Latimer about a group formed by doctors opposed to President Obama's healthcare reform called Docs4PatientCare. 

The article describes the group:

"Founded by Dr. Hal Scherz, a prominent Atlanta physician, the group of doctors expressed concern that like so many other professional groups, the AMA's leadership have been  thoroughly "Washingtonized" - caring more about the pleadings of other lobbyists on K Street, White House invitations and Capitol Hill committee appearances than the professions they are supposed to represent.  As doctors have taken a battering over several decades from insurance companies, HMOS, and government agencies, Scherz says the AMA was a bystander." 

The group is concerned about what the current healthcare reform legislation will do to the practice of medicine in this country.  They have been meeting with Congressmen and their staff members to explain the impact of this legislation.  One such meeting is described:

"Another memorable incident cited by members of the group occurred when one of their members, Joyce Lovett MD, an African American female pediatrician, got the doctors into a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus.  A debate opened up over the health care plan and soon the doctors were text-messaging their colleagues visiting other offices around the capitol for reinforcements.  As the room began filling up, the doctors, doing well in the back and forth of debate, seemed to be changing some minds.  At that point, a worried Black Caucus leader and diehard partisan, John Conyers, broke up the meeting, saying the doctors were more interested in embarrassing the first black president than in achieving real reform.   Unused to this sort of political attack, the astonished doctors told other caucus members  how they felt after taking time from their practices and patients to come all the way to Washington only to hear a member of Congress insinuate they were racists.  One caucus member privately dismissed Conyers' "old ways of thinking," suggesting that the CBC might be ready for fresh, and more innovative, leadership."

Meanwhile, according to The Hill:

"Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), the top Republican on the Ways and Means committee, said that President Barack Obama and Democrats' reported efforts to finish a healthcare bill before the coming summit could scuttle chances for bipartisanship."

The 'bipartisan' meeting scheduled for next week is set up to be cover for the Democrats as they ram through healthcare reform against the wishes of the American people.  The Democrats are going in with the idea that the Republicans should simply sign on to their plan--they have no intention of listening to Republican ideas.  After the meeting, the Democrats will declare the Republicans 'the party of no,' and push through the legislation with 51 votes (through the reconcilliation process).  This is obscene, and every Democrat who votes for this healthcare bill should be voted out of office in November.  I am not sure whether or not the next Congress can undo this mess, but I sure hope they can.