Pro-Single Payer Doctors Protest At The White House 10/05/09

[Turborama]

Run time: 03:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdYSpmsDYTE   Posted on YouTube: October 06, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 06, 2009 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 985

 
On Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, physicians supporting a Single Payer Healthcare system protested outside the White House. Meanwhile, at the Rose Garden, located on the White House grounds, President Barack Obama was hosting a meeting with an estimated 50 doctors. They are supposedly advocates for his "Pubic Option" healthcare reform bill. Only one Single Payer doctor was invited to the Rose Garden session. Sharing their views on this video about this evolving situation are: Dr. Margaret Flowers, Dr. Andy Coates and Dr. Mike Huntington.

http://www.madashelldoctors.com

[saracat]

1. I suppose these Docs are wrong to question too?

[Turborama]

2. Correction: The one Single Payer doctor wasn't "invited" to the Rose Garden session,

he persuaded the gatekeepers to let him in...


‘Mad Docs’ crash White House party

By Bennett Hall, Gazette-Times reporter

President Barack Obama assembled more than 100 doctors outside the White House on Monday morning to enlist the medical profession's backing for his proposed health care reforms.

But at least one attending physician was there to express a dissenting opinion.

Dr. Paul Hochfeld crashed the Rose Garden party in hopes of bending the president's ear. The Corvallis emergency room physician has spent most of the past month on a national tour with an Oregon group called the Mad As Hell Doctors to promote single-payer medical coverage.

If he thought he might win a personal audience with the president, he was disappointed.

"It wasn't really a meeting," Hochfeld said in a phone interview afterward. "It was a photo op for the president to show he had the support of all those physicians."

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Hochfeld said he wasn't sure why he was the only one from the PNHP group who made it past the gate, unless it was plain stubborn persistence. "I wasn't invited to the meeting. I was just following the white coats," Hochfeld said. "I didn't really expect to get in, but I wasn't going to go away until it was clear there wasn't a chance."

More: http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/article_f6b1c316-b20e-11de-84e9-001cc4c03286.html

[joeycola]

3. Olbermann had him as a guest last night. He did well.

[Egnever]

9. Kind of creepy he got in.

wear a white coat walk into the white house.....hmmm just doesnt give me a warm fuzy feeling for the wh security.

[GivePeaceAchance]

4. Yeah, that's what we need some real passion than dead eyed Baucuses. YEAH!...

At the very least an added option to buy into medicare. Even if none of that comes about and the public option stronger for it, it's something, and people would of sat up and taken notice what single payer is moving things one step closer.

[HouLib]

5. Thank you Doctors! Thank you for caring!

[MelissaB]

6. K&R Thank you doctors!

:kick:

[slipslidingaway]

7. "...All we need is the political will of our leaders..." Kucinich during...

the campaign.

2:34 minutes
Dennis Kucinich: Health care
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2OUyZesqRg

[garybeck]

8. kr