Doctors are Now Becoming Liberal Zombie Socialist Hippies!

[evildevil]

As Physicians’ Jobs Change, So Do Their Politics

With Republicans in complete control of Maine’s state government for the first time since 1962, State Senator Lois A. Snowe-Mello offered a bill in February to limit doctors’ liability that she was sure the powerful doctors’ lobby would cheer. Instead, it asked her to shelve the measure.

“It was like

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[olivetree]

“People who are conservative by nature are not going to go into the profession,” he said, “because medicine is not about running your own shop anymore.”

Medicine being about caring for people?

The Hell, you say?

[evildevil]

Didn't you know? Medicine is all about the profits and sick people are just desperate consumers willing to surrender their worldly possessions for the privilege to live!

[ceilidh]

Medicine being about caring for people?

Stop talking that silly talk! Medicine is about money, not people's lives!

[cyranothe2nd]

I also like how he conflates political beliefs with some sort of naturalistic tendency. "I was born a Republican" lol

[c_yo_yus]

I love it when conservatives complain about Group X "increasingly moving to the left" and then being alarmed by it. Yeah, dummies. People are getting smarter. Get used to it.

[mirhanda]

"profit-making businesses should have no role in either insuring people or providing their care."

This this this!

[clevermanka]

Then, in 2006, he sold his practice, took a job with a local health care system, stopped paying the insurance premiums and ended his advocacy on the issue.

How convenient.

I'm happy to see the mentality of health care starting to shift, but I can't help but be irked to see long-time doctors getting on the reform bandwagon now that it suits their own needs.

[redqueenmeg]

But better late than never. I'll take an ally who's a former foe any day.

[clevermanka]

True. Pardon my resentment. =/

I have a hate-hate relationship with most doctors from childhood, so I know my feelings here are biased. *sigh*

[rayiroth]

My fear is when it gets "too hard" to be a decent human being and doing his job, will he flip again?

[the_gabih]

Dr. Kevin S. Flanigan, a former president of the Maine Medical Association, described himself as “very conservative” and said he was fighting to bring the group “back to where I think it belongs... because medicine is not about running your own shop anymore.”

And there was me thinking medicine was about, y'know, helping the sick and injured.

[sephystabbity]

Silly you, its all about the profits!