Doctors - the Next GOP Target of People to Hate

You know how the Repukes cut out certain groups from the herd and then direct the public to hate them (i.e., public employees, teachers, unions, working poor, etc.). Well, I've noticed something slipping into their talking points (which, I'm sure, will grow and grow until they are all saying it). They are saying healthcare is killing this country and has to be controlled (but not by Obamacare, of course)and that it is time to cut doctor's incomes and put caps on their earnings, etc. Remember that most doctors today work for corporate "groups". Guess the corporate masters have put them into the same "dirty, unwashed, overpaid workers" category like everyone else 'cause they need more profits. Imagine that---the GOP is now going with the long knives into the Country Club. This is when the docs will realize that they may think they are rich but are mega-poor compared to the boys who "own" them.

one another from honest evaluation.

We have a family member who is the head of one of the big hospitals in our state (of course, this isn't the big corporate boys but it does illustrate something). He has managed to get his lovely (but brainless) daughter a job there in speech therapy when no one else could buy a job around here. Just like our Tea Party governor's first action was to put his daughter on as his secretary (straight out of school) for $45,000 a year in a state where that is more in the "brain surgeon" category of pay....and the baggers didn't say a word. If I were a doc, I'd ask these bastards to please come into the operating room and hand them the instruments.......

types of people, like vendors, staffing agencies, grant foundations, etc. etc. etc. - for some inexplicable reason - just don't rock the boat when it comes to the judgment calls that add up to the quality of care, a matter that CAN make a life-or-death difference, sooner or later, for those in their care.

for a while now, so this is no surprise.

Physicians have been badly hurt, both professionally and financially, by the failed healthcare system. Most, particularly younger ones, embrace reform and more and more embrace a single payer system.

If the GOP doesn't want them, that's good news for us. They are generally smart, well educated and hold sway in their communities. We should welcome them with open arms.

One thing to keep in mind, though, that tort reform, as it applies to the failed and disastrous medical liability system, is important to them. To let the Republicans continue to own this issue, not look closely at it ourselves or allow it to be used as a huge wedge issue would be a mistake, imo.

Anyone who has the capacity to think has always been suspect at least
and most likely the archetypical adversary of the rethuglican mindset.

Most are wingnuts, and religious wingnuts at that.

I say, let the republicans try using surgeons as their "whipping boy" for a while. It may draw out the actual debate we should all be having which is:

WHY IN THE HELL ARE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES INTERFERING IN THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE?? Just so some asshole CEO's can make $25 million per year with a $52 million per year bonus? There is NO REASON for health insurance companies to exist. We should all be on medicare...single payer. It should all be between us and the doctors.

The repukes are so stupid if they think this is going to work in their favor.

Sorry, but I have to disagree.

Doctors are the ones wanting to take away the rights of their patients to sue (under the guise of *frivolous lawsuits) and the pukes are leading the charge for that *change*.

I don't know of any doctors in my area who are not Republican - and all of them are 100% behind the puke agenda. And many of them are campaign contributors -- heavy contributors.

My kids' pediatrician is liberal, but I don't know any other dem doctors. I also haven't heard any repubs go after doctors as a group.

be a bit surprised that they'd like to drive physicians to work in medical mega-corporations rather than as many do, independently (as my liberal PC doc does).

Tip o' the hat for noticing--by next month, we'll likely be talking about it right here at DU from the morning gabfests.