I was so pleased when a friend sent my way this Wall Street Journal op-ed written by a physician who spells it out: Obamacare is essentially all about meddling in the doctor-patient relationship.
Here are some excerpts from the fantastic essay by Daniel F. Craviotto, Jr., an orthopedic surgeon from Santa Barbara, California:
“In my 23 years as a practicing physician, I’ve learned that the only thing that matters is the doctor-patient relationship. How we interact and treat our patients is the practice of medicine. . . . So when do we say damn the mandates and requirements from bureaucrats who are not in the healing profession? When do we stand up and say we are not going to take it any more?
I don’t know about other physicians but I am tired—tired of the mandates, tired of outside interference, tired of anything that unnecessarily interferes with the way I practice medicine. No other profession would put up with this kind of scrutiny and coercion from outside forces. The legal profession would not. The labor unions would not. We as physicians continue to plod along and take care of our patients while those on the outside continue to intrude and interfere with the practice of medicine.
We could change the paradigm. . . . “
Thank you and Bravo Dr. Craviotto!
The doctor-patient relationship is just one of many personal relationships under attack today by power elites. All big government programs aim to meddle in personal relationships. They have the teacher-student relationship in their crosshairs, the parent-child relationship, the merchant-customer relationship, the neighbor-to-neighbor relationship. Every personal relationship you experience. That’s what dictators from time immemorial have sought to control. That’s why they silence you through the dictates of “political correctness” which is just another word for coercive persuasion.
By meddling in relationships the cliques that run the bureaucracies usurp our personal power and freedom in order to bloat themselves. In the meantime, they demand we support their habit of getting drunk on power.
All of us need to change the paradigm. We need to “stand up and say we are not going to take it anymore,” as Dr. Craviotto urges his fellow physicians. This means not allowing political thugs and bureaucrats to meddle and interfere with our personal relationships — our relationships with our families, our neighbors, our co-workers, our classmates, our doctors, or anyone else in our personal lives.
Freedom of association is under attack as never before. Preserving it is probably the first — and last — line of defense for all of our other freedoms.
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