FLASHBACK: Spin doctors for Obamacare (Incl. Doctors for America signee J. Gruber's podcast)

Michelle Malkin ^ | October 7, 2009 | Michelle Malkin

[maggief]

Lights, camera, agitprop! The curtains opened on yet another artfully-staged performance of Obamacare Theater this week. One hundred and fifty doctors took their places on the plush lawn outside the West Wing – many acting like Twilight groupies with cameras instead of credible medical professionals. The president approved the scenery: “I am thrilled to have all of you here today, and you look very spiffy in your coats.” White House wardrobe assistants guaranteed the “spiffy.” As the New York Post’s Charles Hurt reported, the physicians “were told to bring their white lab coats to make sure that TV cameras captured the image.” President Obama’s aides hastily handed out costumes to those who came in suits or dresses before the doc-and-pony show began.

But while Halloween came early to the Potomac, these partisan single-payer activists in White House-supplied clothing aren’t fooling anyone. Obama’s spin doctors belong to a group called “Doctors for America” (DFA), which reportedly supplied the white lab coats. The White House event was organized in conjunction with DFA and Organizing for America, Obama’s campaign outfit. OFA and DFA are behind a massive new Obamacare ad campaign, letter-writing campaign, and doctor recruitment campaign. The supposedly “grass-roots,” non-profit DFA is a spin-off of Doctors for Obama, a 2008 campaign arm that aggressively pushed the Democrats’ government health care takeover. DFA claims to have thousands of members with a “variety of backgrounds.” But there’s little diversity in their views on socialized medicine (98 percent want a taxpayer-funded public insurance option) – or in their political contributions.

[maggief]

http://peoplesworld.org/doctors-converge-on-dnc-to-defend-obamacare/

september 7 2012

EXCERPT

Doctors for America, he said, has adopted a resolution in strong support of preserving the Affordable Care Act.

The resolution states, "We believe in an America where everyone has quality, affordable health care and where doctors and the public work together to build a health care system that works for all."

The Affordable Care Act is a "critical first step toward this vision," the resolution adds. "We the undersigned demand our politicians put Patients Over Politics. We must work together to build on the Affordable Care Act with further reforms and commit to a future where everyone can get health care when they need it."

Among the signers are Dr. Howard Hiatt, MD, former dean, Harvard School of Public Health; Dr. Jonathan Gruber, economics professor, MIT; Dr. David Feinberg, MD, MBA, UCLA Health System; and Kimberlydawn Wisdom, former surgeon general, State of Michigan; and hundreds more.

[maggief]

http://www.drsforamerica.org/podcasts

Podcast

LISTEN:

OCTOBER 3, 2011 -

HEALTH REFORM FROM ROMNEY TO OBAMA
with Jonathan Gruber of MIT

http://files.www.drsforamerica.org/learn/learn-from-the-experts/Health_Reform_from_Romney_to_Obama_with_Jonathan_Gruber_of_MIT.mp3

07:30 What about cost control ... in MA we didn’t try to control costs ... Federal cost controls not all evidence based ... best hope for what will work ...
We are going to need a Round 2 in 10 years

47:00 re. mandate
Large middle, if they understood the bill ... win over this middle group that would like it if they understood it ...
Just give up on the 33-40% that just hate Obama so much they won’t like the bill no matter if they understand it ...

[Diogenesis]

How many were physicians?

How many were economists, clowns, felons, and liars
PRETENDING to be docs ...
for the First Moslem Impostor from Indonesia?

[maggief]

“DFA: Patients over Politics”

http://files.www.drsforamerica.org/learn/learn-from-the-experts/Health_Reform_from_Romney_to_Obama_with_Jonathan_Gruber_of_MIT.mp3

07:30 What about cost control ... in MA we didn’t try to control costs ... Federal cost controls not all evidence based ... best hope for what will work ...
We are going to need a Round 2 in 10 years

47:00 re. mandate
Large middle, if they understood the bill ... win over this middle group that would like it if they understood it ...
Just give up on the 33-40% that just hate Obama so much they won’t like the bill no matter if they understand it ...

[SE Mom]

Wow. It’s shocking but not surprising.

We are held in utter contempt by Washington, D. C.

[Whenifhow]

Thanks for posting.

Let’s not forget all the organizations that not only supported, but perpetuated this fraud along with the gov’t such as the insurance companies and AARP and others.

[maggief]

Yes, he mentions the Tea Party early on in the podcast, though doesn’t say they’re stupid.

;)

[maggief]

http://www.drsforamerica.org/about/partners

Friends

Over the years, Doctors for America has worked with many organizations at the national and state level - from health care provider groups to consumer advocacy groups and others. Learn more about some of groups that work to ensure that everyone has access to high-quality, affordable health care. Listing here does not imply mutual endorsement of goals, views, or strategies.

Health Care Provider Groups Website
American Academy of Pediatrics www.aap.org
American College of Physicians www.acponline.org
American Academy of Family Physicians www.aafp.org/
American College of Cardiology www.acc.org
American Osteopathic Association www.osteopathic.org
American Medical Student Association www.amsa.org
National Medical Association www.nmanet.org
National Hispanic Medical Association www.nhmamd.org
Society of General Internal Medicine
www.sgim.org
SEIU Healthcare
www.seiu.org/seiuhealthcare
Committee of Interns and Residents / SEIU
www.cirseiu.org
National Physicians Alliance www.npalliance.org/
National Association of Community Health Centers
www.nachc.org/
American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
www.aapiusa.org
Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America
www.appna.org
Association of Clinicians for the Underserved
www.clinicians.org/
HIV Medicine Association
www.hivma.org

Consumer and State-Based Groups

Community Action Partnership
www.communityactionpartnership.com/
Community Catalyst
www.communitycatalyst.org
Enroll America www.enrollamerica.org
Families USA
www.familiesusa.org
Florida CHAIN
www.floridachain.org
Georgians for a Healthy Future
healthyfuturega.org
Herndon Alliance
www.herndonalliance.org
Health Access (California) www.health-access.org/
Healthy Washington Coalition
www.healthywacoalition.org
Virginia Organizing
www.virginia-organizing.org

http://www.drsforamerica.org/take-action/gun-violence-prevention

GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION

Read our Letter to Congress and Letter to Vice President Biden laying out some of our prevention proposals towards cutting gun deaths in half by 2020.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.drsforamerica.org/images/DFA_Gun_Violence_Congressional_Letter.pdf

[Grampa Dave]

“Among the signers are Dr. Howard Hiatt, MD, former dean, Harvard School of Public Health; Dr. Jonathan Gruber, economics professor, MIT;.”

6 Grubergate videos so far make Nixon’s little missing tape minutes look like a sniffle in preschool.

First You Tube link to Gruber bragging about lying to stupid American Voters about ObozoCare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G790p0LcgbI

Second Grubergate Video link to Gruber bragging about how stupid American voters are/were to pass ObozoCare.

<http://hotair.com/archives/2014/11/12/gruber-video-2-no-really-american-voters-are-stupid/

Third Video from Herr Gruber on stupid Americans wanting Obozocare.

http://weaselzippers.us/205230-three-strikes-third-video-of-obamacare-architect-jonathan-gruber-calling-americans-stupid/

Fourth Grubergate video from Herr Gruber re stupid Americans.

http://www.c-span.org/video/?292478-1/health-care-reform

Remember zero Republicans in Congress voted for ObozoCare. Every stupid rat in Congress voted for it without reading the bill or caring what was in it.

Fifth Grubergate video from Herr Gruber re stupid Americans, Fifth Video Emerges, Showing Gruber Mocking Man Worried About Obamacare

http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/14/fifth-video-emerges-showing-gruber-mocking-man-worried-about-obamacare/

Sixth Grubergate video from Herr Gruber re stupid Americans.

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/11/14/the-hits-keep-coming-gruber-video-6/

[Grampa Dave]

[Atomic Vomit]

I just ordered that comic book from amazon. Ordered a used copy, so as not to put any money in his pocket. The preview available online showed the most blatant, patronizing piece of propaganda I’ve seen in a very long time.

Mrs. AV

[Grampa Dave]

“I just ordered that comic book from amazon. Ordered a used copy, so as not to put any money in his pocket. The preview available online showed the most blatant, patronizing piece of propaganda I’ve seen in a very long time.”

I may buy a few. I wonder if Herr Gruber will autograph our copies for free?:)

[maggief]

Wishing to illustrated as a 'gay Brad Pitt.' (see end of podcast)

[Atomic Vomit]

I figure it might have some historical value, after he gets hung from a lamp post somewhere by irate consumers who finally realize what the endgame is.

[Liz]

GRUBER'S HATE-A THON BEGAN WITH HILLARYCARE

SOURCE Health Reforms May Hurt Uninsured - Study analyzes hospitals in California
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - Saturday, January 30, 1993
Author: Jonathan Marshall, Chronicle Staff Writer

Health care reforms under consideration by the Bill Clinton administration could backfire against uninsured patients, a new study of California hospitals suggests. A move in California in the 1980s to control the upward spiral of medical costs by encouraging price competition produced discounts of nearly 5 percent for paying patients, according to an analysis released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, an academic clearinghouse in Cambridge, Mass.

Price competition is a key element in ``managed competition’’ and ``managed care’’ scenarios being reviewed by a White House task force led by (a very ambitious First Lady) Hillary Clinton.

At the same time, however, the move to competition also slashed the amount of uncompensated care 36 percent from its expected value.

``The bottom line I want to push is that if you lower the price of care, it may . . . not be unambiguously good if it means kicking out the uninsured,’’ said Jonathan Gruber, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist who authored the study. (snip) (no link)

[Vaduz]

Appears the dems new scam is to cause upward spiral of costs of what ever they want to pass.