Gateway links to Patterico, who's done two posts on Roxana Mayer, who was reported in the Houston Chronicle as a "pediatric primary care physician":
One supporter, Dr. Roxana Mayer, a physician who does not live in Jackson Lee's district, praised the reform plan for overhauling a broken system.See Patterico's post for the details, "Roxana Mayer: I’m Not a Doctor But I Play One at Town Hall Meetings." Despicable deception, but what's especially bad is apparently the Chronicle knew that Ms. Mayer was an Obama convention delegate at the time of publication - and thus the reporter id not detail the conflict of interest.
“I don't know what there is in the bill that creates such panic,” she said.
This is just one more in a line of Democratic deceptions coming out in the last few days. President Obama was caught planting participants at the yesterday's New Hampshire town hall. See Fox News, "White House Says Girl With Campaign Ties Chosen at 'Random' to Speak at Obama Town Hall." Also, "Question by a Malden Girl Becomes the Target of Conservative Critics."
It is somewhat humorous for Obama to state that the young girl was chosen at random when he and his minion stacked it with Obama partisans. He got caught busing these people in. Who is really "astroturling?"
ReplyDeleteWhy would having a "fake" doctor be any different than anything else that comes out of this Congress and administration? It is just business as usual.
Anyone with half a brain should be able to discern that if 70 to 80 percent of all healthcare costs are for those over 55 then those over 55 will bear the burden by being provided healthcare on a financial basis.
Seniors are rightly concerned because they have years of experience with politicians offering things that are supposed to make things better and seeing that the results are almost always the inverse. Medicare was sold as a way to cut healthcare costs and now Obama and Congress are telling us it could bankrupt us.
We have one of the best healthcare systems in the world. It does need to be "tweaked." There are many things that could be done to lessen costs. Start with tort reform. That would lower malpractice insurance and lower the number of test doctors order in order to protect themselves from lawyers. Find ways to get more people to go into General Practice to up the availability of doctors. Create medical savings accounts and cut away all the unnecessary government required paperwork.
Suffice it to say that I could sit here and come up with a large numbers of ways to improve healthcare and none of them would be in these disasters of healthcare pap coming out of Congress. Anyone who has even read a bit of any of the plans has to be chagrined.
The fact that large numbers of our representative have no idea what is in them and have not read them should give us pause in a number of areas. I thought one of the reasons we elected them was to have input, on an active basis, to read and know what they are doing, and to represent the best interest of their constituents, et all. Maybe if they were not spending so much time flying on so many Congressional "junkets" they would have time to actually do their jobs. What I see demonstrated here at the very least is malfeasant.
Have you ever wondered why Obama talks a lot about healthcare, but has not provided one plan? generally that is why Executive actions like this come with their ideas as to what is required.
Another thing one has to wonder when your grandmother dies and one of the first thing you think is how we could save money by denying service? Something very cold about Obama.
Now ObamaCare is getting a $12 million ad campaign by unspecified "donors" off to support a package of proposals that hasn't been finalized and is probably in mid-abort mode for all practical purposes. I used to be in Houston often when I worked in the oil industry and the Houston Chronicle is a joke of a newspaper. No surprise that the fake doc wasn't outed by this tabloid leftist birdcage bottom material!
ReplyDeleteDennis has an excellent observation with this:
Start with tort reform. That would lower malpractice insurance and lower the number of test doctors order in order to protect themselves from lawyers.
My wife and I [we're taking care of her aged parents] see dozens of docs in S. Florida every month and his observation on G.P. docs is also apropos.
ObamaCare is protean in its formlessness and incomprehensible in its total ramifications, which will be exploited once this irresponsible and unaccountable Congress passes it in whatever form.
The latest Gallup shows the country lining up behind the protesters, who remember all the claptrap about "speaking truth to power" during Iraq and now can't understand why suddenly the same actions are "waving swastikas" in the eyes of the witless Speakerette.
Did anyone take notice of how many "morbidly obese" people are part of this administration. if they want to push for healthcare, they might want to look healthy.
ReplyDeletehttp://lonestartimes.com/2009/08/13/obama-camp-plants-fake-doc-che-fan-at-jackson-lee-forum/
ReplyDeleteCheck out the above link--there is yet more to the story!!