Posted by
VBushmills on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 8:41:42 AM
Posted on RedState.com on 21 December
I hate to ask others to do what I can’t but I think only doctors can
still stop this now as well as laythe groundwork for a constitutional
challenge.
About 3 weeks ago I met with some Richmond area doctors. They are
apoplectic, and a few have signed petitions. Some have called their
legislators. We have two senators in Virginia who will vote with the
plan, but have been so quiet, so absent, and unavailable for public
comment…
…but the message they are getting from senate staffers, and the
general scat from the Administration, is that they are rich and spoiled
doc-brats. Shut up.
So the tendency, since doctors are rarely politically active (unlike
lawyers), is to back away, knowing they can do little as individuals.
But how about as a bloc?
I mentioned this to my group, and they looked at me as if I’d
suggested they take up chiropracty. Still, the idea here is on the
table.
I told them if as few as twenty or thirty of them went public on
local media and declared a strike, say for a week, 2 weeks, except for
emergency care, within a few hours, maybe days their number would
double, triple.
And with another day there would be at least ten more cities declaring as well.
I lied. I didn’t know any of these things to be true, and realized
it would be these doctors, not me, putting it on the line if they did
come out and declare.
Doctors are the one group that have a vested interest and legal complaint, legal-constitutional complaint, over this health care package. They can sue.
I think they can get all kinds of media, with the people, their
patients closing ranks behind them, 20 to 1. If “Doc So-and-So says
it’s bad, it’s bad.”
Your thoughts?
VB