Facing a nationwide backlash, Democratic congressional candidates have a new message for voters: We know you don't like Obama Care, so we'll fix it.
This was the line offered by Democrat Mark Critz, who won a special election in Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district after expressing opposition to the law and promising to mend it-but not to repeal it.
For Democrats who voted for Obama Care, this tactic is an escape route, a chance to distance themselves from the president with a vague promise to fix health-care reform in the next congress. Dr. Scherz and Docs4PatientCare are enlisting thousands of doctors in an unorthodox and unprecedented action. Because the issue this election is so stark -literally life and death for millions of Americans in the years ahead-we are this week posting a "Dear Patient" letter in our waiting rooms. The letter in unambiguous language what the new law means:
Dear Patient,
Section 1311 of the new health care legislation gives the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and her appointees the power to establish health care guidelines that your doctor must abide by or face penalties and fines. In making doctors answerable in the federal bureaucracy this bill effectively makes them employees of the government and means that your doctor and you are no longer in charge of your health care decisions. This new law politicizes medicine and in my opinion destroys the sanctity of the doctor patient relationship that makes the American health care system the best in the world. Obama Care will bring major cost increases, rising insurance premiums, higher taxes, a decline in new medical techniques, a fall off of the development of miracle drugs as well as rationing by government panels and by bureaucrats.like passionate rationing advocate Donald Berwick that will force delays of months sometimes years for hospitalization or surgery. We will cite the brute facts of Obama Care's passage: Despite countless protests
by doctors and overwhelming public opposition-up to 60% of Americans opposed this bill. The current party pushed this bill through legal bribes and Chicago style threats and is determined now to resist any repeal and replace efforts. The Democratic leadership and the White House completely dismissed the will of the people in ruthlessly pushing through this legislation.
In the face of voter anger some Democratic candidates are now trying to make a cosmetic retreat, calling for for minor modifications or pretending they are opposed to government-run medicine. Once the election is over, however, they will vote with their party bosses against repealing the bill.
Missouri voters rejected Obama Care overwhelmingly in August 71% to 29% to reject the federal requirement that all individuals purchase health insurance. America's doctors have millions of personal interactions each week with patients. We have political power. We intend to use it by working to defeat those who have disrupted and gravely endangered the best health-care system in the world.
The sad story regarding this bill is that no one read the bill , even Speaker Polisi said, "Now that we've passed the bill we will find out whats in it!"