Reply #85: I don't trust any politician [View All]

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and watching what is unfolding regarding reform in several areas such as torture/health care/rule of law. etc., I'm comfortable with that position.

Dean isn't on my side, if he was he would push for single payer not pretend obama's plan will be a legit choice between single payer and private ins and proceed to spread that lie on national tv. If he was on my side he wouldn't be using his reputation as an honest broker to push for longer patents on biosimilars on behalf of drug companies.
Besides that he's a centrist and the reason vermont now has a progressive party that represented folks who disagree with his centrist policies when he was governor.

I don't know those folks who are protesting at his book tours from a hole in wall.

For me all it takes is one time for a politician to use his reputation as a trusted expert and proceed to lie.

Here is a non politician and a physician who doesn't lie:

Obama's Doctor: President's Vision For Health Care Bound To Fail

The man Barack Obama consulted on medical matters for over two decades said on Tuesday that the president's vision for health care reform is bound for failure.

Dr. David Scheiner, a 70-year Chicago-based physician who treated Obama for more than 20 years, said he was disheartened by the health care legislation his former patient is championing, calling it piecemeal and ineffectual.

"I look at his program and I can't see how it's going to work," Scheiner told the Huffington Post. "He has no cost control. There would be no effective cost control in his program. The said it's going be incredibly expensive ... and the thing that I really am worried about is, if it is the failure that I think it would be, then health reform will be set back a long, long time."

Scheiner, who prefers a more progressive approach to reform, was hesitant about trying to divine the president's motives, although he said he believed that "in his heart of hearts" Obama "may well like a single-payer program."

"His pragmatism is what is overwhelming him." Scheiner added: "I think he's afraid that he can't get anything through if he doesn't go through this incredibly compromised program."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/29/obamas-doctor-presidents_n_246870.html


So is this doctor dissing dean, too? He's referring to the exact plan dean is- Obama's.