Obama's Former Doctor Attacks Health Care Plan

Dr. David Scheiner, former doctor of President Obama, appeared on Lou Dobbs' TV show to criticize his patient's new health care proposal.

He says Obama shouldn't expand Medicaid because it is "not a good system", and their patients are treated in a "third class fashion... that's not the American way of life."

Dr. Scheiner also adds that Medicare needs to be "tightened up."

Dobbs closed the interview by suggesting he should get together with his former patient and talk over "a beer at the White House."

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[Aabra69]

I completely agree with this guy. What really needs to be done is to have the insurance companies completely abolished and 100% universal health care which is totally government run brought in. Unfortunately however - that would never have passed. What was done however was definitely a big step in the right direction.

[badtown88]

Good for this guy. I'm glad people can find a way to criticize people they disagree with without turning into whiny, screaming lunatics. Take a note, tea partiers.

[hopelessim]

Thank you Mr. Obama, I sure hope this health care works out. Since you been in elected I've lost my job, home, vehicle, health care and savings. You said you were going to make changes, and you did. Now when I crawl out of my cardboard box I feel a lot better knowing that I may have Health Care in the future. It won't be the Health Care plan that all you politicians have because we know that you people do such a great job and have to be rewarded accordingly. After all money is no object...

[scarletletterman84]

This man is a genuine doctor. Shouldn't the doctors opinions be the most worthwhile on this matter? You dont ask a bricklayer how to repair a book, and the healthcare and pharm corps have poured obscene amounts of money into advertising opposing universal health care. We're like the only top industrialized nation in the world that doesnt provide care for its citizens! Its absurd!

[fendergibs]

MD are never " incentivised" to be carelss, that is a idiotic stament, if not law suits they could lose hosptial privalges, lose their state licence, lose patients if they act that way.

[fendergibs]

yes but it cost money to defend those junk law suits which should never go to trail & the law firms should know better but instead scatter shot 10 suits, if one or 2 wins they make alot of money for themselves, yet the hospital still have to pay for the other 8 junk suits even if they won. Tort refrom would copy other counties where the loser pay all legal fees to defend. Thus the good law firms would only take on legit claims, self filter the bullshit & save millions a year.

[MrDustandechoes]

Luckily we have a justice system that determines which law suits are "junk" and which are legitimate and deserving of compensation. All I see caps on malpractice suits doing is incentivising doctors to be careless and increasing profits for big insurance.

[fendergibs]

maybe on Pluto, but here on Earth it means reducing junk law suits , lower malpratice cost, reducing defensive medicine tests, which means lowering the cost of medcine for all. It also means reducing the number of sleaz bag lawyer with those 1-800-sue-you Tv adds & billboards across the land. If obama could only rise above the tort lobby money.