Obama's Doctor Knocks ObamaCare

xavierx · Joined: Nov 06, 2004 Posts: 5427

http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/18/obama-doctor-knocks-obamacare-busines...ealthca

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David Scheiner, an internist based in the Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park, has a diverse practice of lower-income adults from the nearby housing projects mixed with famous patients like U.S. Sen. Carol Mosely Braun, the late writer Studs Terkel and, most notably, President Barack Obama.

Scheiner, 71, was Obama's doctor from 1987 until he entered the White House; he vouched for the then-candidate's "excellent health" in a letter last year. He's still an enthusiastic Obama supporter, but he worries about whether the health care legislation currently making its way through Congress will actually do any good, particularly for doctors like himself who practice general medicine. "I'm not sure he really understands what we face in primary care," Scheiner says.

Scheiner takes a few other shots too. Looking at Obama's team of health advisors, Scheiner doesn't see anyone who's actually in the trenches. "I have a suspicion they pick people from the top echelon of medicine, people who write about it but haven't been struggling in it," he says.
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bern · Joined: Mar 12, 2007 Posts: 1432 Location: ann arbor

xavierx wrote:

http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/18/obama-doctor-knocks-obamacare-business-healthcare-obamas-doctor.html

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David Scheiner, an internist based in the Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park, has a diverse practice of lower-income adults from the nearby housing projects mixed with famous patients like U.S. Sen. Carol Mosely Braun, the late writer Studs Terkel and, most notably, President Barack Obama...

While I agree with the sentiment, this is, unfortunately, only one man's opinion, and the fact he was Obama's doctor is really irrelevant. His argument is too narrow; the needs of those "in the trenches" varies all over the map. And paramount in all this is really the long term needs of patients.

I hate to say it, but this is the sort of thing Ken might have posted had it been anti US or pro Liberal.