Surgeons Oppose Government Takeover of Health Care

Conn Carroll / December 02, 2009

Yesterday a coalition of 19 surgical organizations representing over 240,000 doctors nationwide sent a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), with copies to the entire U.S. Senate, explaining why they must oppose the Senate’s version of Obamacare.

Read the whole letter here, or skip to their list of specific problems with the bill below the fold. You’ll see that almost all of their complaints have to do with the tremendous amount of authority this bill rips away from doctors and patients and transfers to bureaucrats in Washington DC. Heritage scholar Bob Moffit details just some of the DC power grab here, and the Washington Examiner’s Susan Ferrechio covers the behemoth the Department of Health and Human Services would become, here.

The surgeons oppose: (more…)