Dr. Glenn Cohen is a racist rw POS. Please respond to these outrageous lies

[LibDemAlways]

the Thousand Oaks CA orthopedic surgeon spewed outside a recent meeting of the local Democratic Club, and I will make sure the thread is printed and delivered to his office.

"The government wants to tell you when I can see you."

He added that under proposed healthcare legislation, his 85 year old mother wouldn't get treated for breast cancer but a "40 year old illegal immigrant would."

http://www.theacornonline.com/topstory-toak.html

It's bad enough that the entire repuke establishment and the media are doing their part to kill health care, but this guy is an MD who should know better. Please help educate him.

[tj2001]

1. Glenn D. Cohen, M.D., for your hand surgery needs:

http://www.handsurgeon.org/

[imdjh]

2. Well here's part of the problem.

"“Medical professionals are some of the smartest people in the world; let us come together and fix it,” Rosenfeld said."

Actually, it's surprising how many doctors there are who aren't terribly bright. Being educated and being smart are not the same thing. Some morons can memorize amazing things, some idiot savants can do complex problem solving, and many doctors can described the underlying cause of an illness without being able to hold their own in a minor contest of wits or logic.

[LibDemAlways]

4. Rosenfeld's logic is, indeed, screwed up. His skills as a physician

have nothing whatsoever to do with making sure people have access to those skills in a timely manner at an affordable cost. I would bet big bucks that when a prospective patient calls his office the very first question out of the mouth of the scheduler is "What kind of insurance do you have?" That trumps everything else.

[imdjh]

7. I love it when doctors act like they don't know how much they charge for things.

Seriously, I have had doctors say that they didn't know how much things cost. It's like it's somehow beneath them to think in terms of money, when you're the one spending it, but it's not beneath them when it comes time for them to pay for home repairs or purchases- you can bet on that.

[tj2001]

5. Dr. Frist was brilliant

Unparalleled experience in diagnosis via television.

Much of medical education is rote memorization by necessity. Too bad many of them have neither common sense nor empathy for anyone making less than $150K.

[imdjh]

3. Concern about the drain of illegal aliens on our public systems is not racism.

Keep it up, and you are going to wear that term out to the point at which no one pays attention to it anymore. You can deny it, but that's how it works.

[LibDemAlways]

6. There is nothing in any healthcare bill being proposed that would

mandate care for undocumented people in the US. He was throwing out some red meat and deliberately scapegoating an entire category of people in front of a white, repuke crowd. In this area, a stone's throw from the Reagan library, people love to blame everything on "illegals" and he knew he'd get a reaction.

[imdjh]

8. It's not in the bill, but it IS an issue.

One of the reasons we can't get Single Payer to the table is because we have millions of illegal aliens in this country who are already costing us a fortune in services. Millions of illegal aliens that well meaning people want to make citizens, who will then be eligible for welfare, who will then be eligible to sponsor more immigrants, who will be followed by yet another wave of illegals who well meaning people will then want to make citizens.

Bottom line, we can't afford millions of illegal aliens, whether it's in the bill or not. The illegal aliens are an issue that Congress, The white House, and the states are going to have to do something about, and no one wants to give the order to clear them out.