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In the latest of many myth-busting articles (the myth being that a majority of doctors believe Obamacare is a good idea), a Wall Street Journal editorial from Tuesday explains “Obama’s War on Specialists“.  This is just one of the early, obvious examples of how government interference will destroy our medical system. Imagine how many more ways it will happen with a “reform” bill that almost no politician will have an opportunity to read (nor will most Democrats actually care to read it) before it comes up for a vote.

Read the article, linked above, and then think about Obama’s attempt to deceive the public about how doctors feel about socialized medicine, as reported by the WSJ (also on Tuesday):

The Dear Leader of Doctors

President Obama seemed to take a page yesterday from the Asian autocrat’s book of political theater. He arranged to have assembled in the Rose Garden some 150 doctors donned in “very spiffy” white lab coats (which the president’s staff instructed them to wear) to hear the president’s bromides on rescuing the nation’s health care from the grip of evil insurance companies.

“Some of the people who are most supportive of reform are the very medical professionals who know the health care system best,” Mr. Obama insisted. Yet his audience was about as representative of doctors nationwide as the Chinese performers who masqueraded as Uighurs and Tibetans in last week’s 60th anniversary parade were representative of those peoples. Indeed, in a recent IBD/TIPP poll of physicians nationally, two-thirds of doctors opposed the president’s overhaul, and some 71% doubted his claim that his plan would cover more people at lower cost with higher quality. Nearly half said they would consider quitting medicine if Congress passes ObamaCare.

In fact, about a quarter of yesterday’s audience was culled directly from Doctors for America, which Politico.com earlier this year called “a reincarnation of [the campaign group] Doctors for Obama.” Still, if even this highly partisan group chafed a bit at the hokey stereotyping of the lab coats, it didn’t show – perhaps because the doctors were too busy cheering loudest when Mr. Obama spoke about forgiveness of medical school loans.”

Also, see THIS article showing that many of the doctors picked by Obama were donors to the Democratic Party.

And Michelle Malkin’s take on the topic…