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‘Doctors Orders’: Vote For Romney?

Nov. 6, 2012 8:05am

On Monday, TheBlaze spotlighted an ad from 500 former Generals and Admirals who were publicly supporting Mitt Romney for president.

On Sunday, a group of medical doctors in various fields of specialization, paid to publish an open letter to their patients. The full page ad ran  in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Doctors Orders Vote for Mitt Romney

Image: Health Care Professionals For Romney Ryan 20112

The 41 doctors who signed their names to the document are a little different from the retired military pros who spoke out against President Obama. In this case, all of the people on the list are currently working in the medical field and have offered their advice to patients.

The idea for this unusual advocacy came after a small group of healthcare professionals decided to stand up against the “Affordable Care Act” (Obamacare). They created a group called “Docs4Patient Care.”

Doctors Orders Vote for Mitt Romney

Not long after Docs4 Patient Care began working in communities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the group was approached by FreedomWorks. A cooperative project between the doctors and FreedomWorks produced a post card that was mailed to a list of over 21,000 undecided voters in Pennsylvania. The purpose of the mailing was to educate voters on the differences between the two leading Presidential candidates — especially on the topic of health care. In this very specific instance, the doctors endorsed Mitt Romney and were promoting a repeal of Obamacare.

Doctors Orders Vote for Mitt Romney

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The postcard was a success and it sparked a few of the doctors to suggest the creation of a newspaper ad that might have even great impact on the upcoming election.

The campaign, which was designed to look like the Declaration of Independence, was conceived, designed, and published, all with in the space of a couple of weeks.

The letter is broken down into a few very specific categories, starting with “Insights from Practicing Physicians.”  In the opening paragraph, the doctors claim:

The cause of today’s US health care crisis is not “too little government”. It is “too much government” – and the wrong kind.

The ad continues to make the case for Romney (and Senate candidate Tom Smith) using some powerful arguments based on a topic these doctors know something about — healthcare:

  • SENIORS: Alarming Problems Made Life Threatening – There is already a looming doctor shortage of more than 100,000 physicians in the next ten years. Many of you on Medicare are already facing difficulty finding a doctor. Now it will become far worse.
  • Some of the Worst ObamaCare Rumors are True – When fully implemented, ObamaCare will create a myriad of new federal boards, agencies, commissions and panels – 159 and counting- to over-see and which can over-rule our medical judgement and affect your care.
  • ObamaCare Fails its Primary Goal – Universal Coverage - After passing a 2,000 page law, writing over 12,000 pages of regulations (so far), and spending trillions of dollars over the next decade, the Government Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that 26 million Americans will still not have coverage.
  • Doctors & Politics Don’t Mix - Mountains of government regulations and restrictions piled on relentlessly over the past 50 years have driven up the prices of medical services, and the cost of health insurance beyond the affordable range for many. Most of us have been silent.

For  more information on this group, you can visit their Facebook page here.

The full text of the ad as it appeared in the Sunday paper can be seen here.

Below is the basic text, without the list of doctors.

Dear Patients,

Vote for Mitt Romney
Tom Smith for Senate
Your Doctors
in Pennsylvania & New Jersey
Insights from Practicing Physicians
Every doctor knows that for a treatment to be effective, an accurate diagnosis first must be made- not of the symptoms- but of the disease process causing the symptoms. For therapy to be effective, the treatment must be carefully targeted – and eliminate the cause. The cause of today’s US health care crisis is not “too little government”. It is “too much government” – and the wrong kind.
We write this letter to you and the other readers of this newspaper to express our *alarm* regarding the President’s new health insurance law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) known as ObamaCare.
We urge you to vote for candidates like Mitt Romney and Tom Smith who have vowed to repeal it and replace it with reform plans that evict the government from our medical offices and examination rooms.
SENIORS: Alarming Problems Made Life Threatening
There is already a looming doctor shortage of more than 100,000 physicians in the next ten years. Many of you on Medicare are already facing difficulty finding a doctor. Now it will become far worse.
The law takes $716 billion out of Medicare over 10 years to help fund a huge expansion of taxpayer subsidies for health coverage. Drastic , below-cost, Medicare cuts will force increasing numbers of doctors and hospitals to drop Medicare or unable to accept new Medicare patients.
Universal coverage is meaningless if you have to wait months for an appointment or can not find a doctor at all.
ObamaCare Fails its Primary Goal – Universal Coverage
For these and many other reasons, the physicians who signed this letter and thousands more across the nation believe that the PPACA (ObamaCare) must be repealed. It is dangerous to your health and the financial health and well being of this country.
It must be replaced with patient-centered (not bureaucrat-centered) reforms which will preserve the patient-physician relationship, and enhance high quality, affordable health care.
Detailed, alternative economically sound, responsible reform plans are available and would achieve these goals, but the law must be first over-turned by removing President Obama and all of his other supporters of this dangerous law from elected office and paving the way for real reform.
Some of the Worst ObamaCare Rumors are True
“Bureaucrats & Non-Physician Panels Dictate Health Care Policy” When fully implemented, ObamaCare will create a myriad of new federal boards, agencies, commissions and panels – 159 and counting- to over-see and which can over-rule our medical judgement and affect your care.
“Death Panels that withhold care from too old or too sick” The Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB): 15 unelected bureaucrats (who do not have to be medical professionals), will be tasked with reducing Medicare spending, mostly by determining payment cuts for seniors’ care. These determinations cannot be challenged except by Congressional action, thereby making health care a political football every election, since their rulings will determine what procedures and care Medicare will fund – and, more importantly, what it will NOT fund.
After passing a 2,000 page law, writing over 12,000 pages of regulations (so far), and spending trillions of dollars over the next decade, the Government Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that 26 million Americans will still not have coverage.
Doctors & Politics Don’t Mix
Doctors don’t spend 13 years or more training to treat patients to offend half with our politics. Most of us have been silent.
Mountains of government regulations and restrictions piled on relentlessly over the past 50 years have driven up the prices of medical services, and the cost of health insurance beyond the affordable range for many. Most of us have been silent.
They have created protected monolithic in-state monopolies of third party payer companies employing armies of life time government and pseudo-governmental paper-pushing middlemen: billers, coders, and auditors who add to the cost, but not the quality of our medical services as doctors. Most of us have been silent.
The miracle of modern American medicine is directly tied to the miracle of America. The same freedoms that made the microwave oven, the iPad, and the internet created an enviroment that made American medicine the envy of the earth.
The free market combined with our hippocratic oath brought health outcomes to America that still draw the sick from around the world and fuel our armies of compassion with therapies and cures across the globe.
Silent No More…
The Democrats in this season of America’s political life will not listen to the Physicians actually practicing medicine.
Your Doctors have come together – an unprecedented action – to ask our patients to vote them out of office – before it’s too late.
We are asking you to vote ONLY for candidates that pledge to repeal ObamaCare.
For this election we are asking you to vote for:

Mitt Romney for President

Tom Smith for Senate in PA
Doctors are silent no more. We urge all those who read this letter to vote for candidates who have promised to repeal ObamaCare.
As your physicians, we wish you the best and the wisdom to choose wisely in the upcoming election. Your health and the future of this country depend on it.
Doctors Orders – Vote Romney & Smith to Repeal ObamaCare
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Comments (34)

  • ERB
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 2:18pm

    Unfortunately the % people think the DR are only looking out for themselves, they are clueless on what is going to happen when the whole Barry care law takes effect! if you are young and healthy, it’s all sunshine and lollipops, but wait until they see how those older than them are put out to pasture, and your Grandparents, you better start saying your good byes now, they don’t stand a chance…
    And if you have a job, get ready for smaller pay checks.

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    • cherjo
      Posted on November 6, 2012 at 5:24pm

      I am a grandparent who was diagnosed with MS 8 yrs ago. I spent 6 months in the hospital & 4 1/2 months in a year later. My hospital bills were over $500,000.00. I am now disabled & feel if I get sick like that again I would be history. The death panel would decide, not me and my doctor.

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  • JoanofAmerica
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 1:34pm

    WHY IS THERE AN AD ON THE BLAZE WITH A vote for obama AND A photo of michell obama on it???

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  • frednerk
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 12:24pm

    G’day to all, I’m an Aussie liveing in ‘Nth AL’.I ca’nt vote but have had a Romney sticker on my truck for 2 months & for 3 weeks have Romney signs in my front garden/lawn I live in ‘a (mosly) neighbourhood’ heh ‘will be interesting to see the outcome, I’m not takeing signs down until I feel like it ! I might leave em’ there t’ill I go back home.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 11:01am

    A civil war is looming, people are broke and tired and their children’s futures have been mortgaged to the Chinese……..if Obama wins,I’m selling my business and heading to Costa Rica…..

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    • marybethelizabeth
      Posted on November 6, 2012 at 11:09am

      They Asked Mitt Romney who he voted for.

      His Answer was “I think you know.”

      Even he is embarrassed to admit to being a Republican.

      It’s not good for one’s mental health to be a social pariah.

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  • kissmygritsextremists
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:11am

    D-Day people! Let’s get this thing done!

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  • MyLaborIsNotYourRight
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:45am

    Why the question mark Blaze? The majority of doctors do NOT support obamacare. The public did not hear about it because they have no national voice . . . less than 20% of all doctors belong to the AMA, a liberal lobby group. New groups such as Docs 4 Patient Care have had to form to fight obamacare and have struggled to get the word out with limited resources.

    Obamacare is a “trojan horse”. It gives government bureaucrats power and control over every aspect of your life. It is worse than most people know.

    Doctors have been shouting out against obamacare, but without a national voice, they were not heard and appeared silent. Thank You FreedomWorks for stepping in to help!

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:35am

    Sounds like a Rx for good health of the country because those docs know what socialized medicine will do for us,it’ll put us in an early grave.

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  • txannie
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:34am

    I have cancer and have been fighting it for a long time, thank you God. My “team” of physicians is large but getting smaller all the time. To date, in just the last 3 years, 3 of the 5 original physicians has quit practice to go into research and EVERY TIME they explained it personally to me that it was the new obamacare forcing them out of the field to maintain a level of integrity to thier patients. I have been warned by my cardiologist, not one of my oncology team, that she may have to go to something else. For people like me, with devastating health issues, continuity in our care and meticulous records is of utmost importance. Both of these factors are threatened by obamacare. Just as soon as the gov got involved with my medical care, it took a nose dive. Actions speak louder than words and obama’s actions should be a deafening roar in everyone’s ears that he is destroying America.

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  • barber2
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:08am

    Please, Lord, do not allow Obama time to be more flexible. NOBAMA 2012

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    • txannie
      Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:40am

      INTERNET TROLL ALERT….Everyone on this site needs to know that if you go to the website(s) CAROLYN.PERL and those like him/her is asking you to go to is specifically designed to give you a destructive virus. They are being posted here by internet trolls. DO NOT FALL INTO THIER TRAP BY CLICKING ON THEIR LINK.

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  • objectivetruth
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:06am

    I have gotten phone calls from a group doing the same.Obamacare is a nightmare.Its the true prelude to genocide.There are changes that need to be made to the medical professions.Obamacare isn’t the answer.Never has been never will be.

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  • Tigress1
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:06am

    Along with this there are many, many other reasons to vote the lying, divisive, smart-ass, corrupt, insulting, Israel-hating, weak, Chicago politician thug, threatening, apologizing, clueless about the economy, incompetent, baby killing, Ambassador killing, covering-up Communist piece of crap out of the White House. A vote for Romney also will send a message to the media that we are sick of their protection of Obama and their dereliction of duty as journalists for the past 4 years. Let’s give Michelle Obama her wish, and let her and her husband walk out the front door of the White House and keep right on walking!
    America NEEDS Romney! We don’t need to put up with the above B.S.! Romney is a good, kind, decent, honest, hard-working, competent, intelligent, patriotic, friend to our friends in the world, defender of life, and classy man. The choice is clear. Romney supporters – GO VOTE!!!!!

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  • 4LuvOfCountry
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:05am

    Made a SUPER FUNNY blog post about Obama’s Facebook Timeline showing what a crook he is. Please send to all the undecideds and independents you know so we can get the votes for ROMNEY. THANKS!

    http://listenlittleman.tumblr.com/

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  • ForMyKidsVA
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:03am

    I take my kids to a large pediatric practice. For the last several years we have never waited more than 15 minutes to see a doctor. The other day my daughter and I had to leave after waiting an hour. I ended up calling and asking for a prescription for her ear infection. Why the sudden long wait? Electronic medical records. I now have the same problem at my specialist’s office also because of EMRs.

    The next day a Tim Kaine volunteer showed up at my door (something I expect he now regrets). I asked him if Kaine would kill obamacare and EMRs and the guy launched into the many wonderful benefits of them. I suppose in a death panel kind of way patients no longer being able to see their doctors is indeed a wonderful innovation.

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    • barber2
      Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:10am

      Notice what happened to the government run postal service ?? Can you just imagine what that same government can do to our health care ? NOBAMA 2012

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:18am

      Yeah Tim Kaine pushed my buttons with his first robocall.He used his old one.The recording still has him as the Governor of Virginia.I kept the recording of the call for illustration purposes.He also accepted money from the MB.He also increased their political influence here in Virginia.No One should forget that.

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  • Eastinfection
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 8:55am

    Mama called the Doctor and the Doctor said…

    No more Democrats working for the Fed!

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  • MiCurmudgeon
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 8:46am

    My daughter , an oncologist dealing mainly with breast cancer patients, lives in Madison , Wi , is on the faculty of UofW and is voting for Romney to help rid the country of ObamaCare.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 8:37am

    Thank you, Doctors. These are more than people in white dress up mode. These people are REAL PHYSICIANS. There is a huge difference.

    PRAY, AMERICA.
    VOTE.

    It is cold and rainy where we live. We will be working the polls here mid day. We appreciate the opportunity to stand for AMERICA and for GOD, and we thank all of you for your prayers not only for us but for all who are standing this day asking GOD for one more chance.

    GOD BLESS, BLAZERS!
    Keep the faith.

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  • rockymtngal
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 8:29am

    Here in CO, people who are on Medicare have had a hard time finding a doctor who will accept assignment for those patients. (paying the doctor, then waiting for reimbersment) People on a very limited income can’t afford to pay up front and wait for Medicare to send them a check. The only reason I was accepted as a patient w/ medicare is because I’ve been with the practice for over 20yrs. I’m just waiting for them to tell me that they will no longer take any medicare patients and I’ll be hung out to dry. I’m not alone. Our gov’t doesn’t have the right to dictate our medical care by regulating doctor’s treatment. It’s scary.

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    • rickc34
      Posted on November 6, 2012 at 8:40am

      It will get worse during Obama’s 2nd term, it is called population control on the left. Obama will steal the election by voter fraud. Obama the racist in chief.

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  • John 3:16
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 8:29am

    The latest news in DesMoines, Iowa is the polls are packed and some have no parking areas that are not filled with cars. Chick-fil-a day in Iowa. Go Romney!!!

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 8:28am

    My doctor three years ago called him the Antichrist…..

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 8:25am

    God above let the people listen to their doctors here; Obama needs to be defeated by a landslide.

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  • bpodlesnik
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 8:21am

    My family, along with the rest of Somerset County, PA are going for Romney and Tom Smith.

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    • nervous
      Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:12am

      Hope you are right about PA!

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    • bpodlesnik
      Posted on November 6, 2012 at 4:18pm

      The towns around me survive because of the coal industry, if it goes there is no doubt in my mind the towns go with it.

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  • tigerpaw1981
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 8:17am

    I pray you do what the doctor says.

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  • IMCHRISTIAN
    Posted on November 6, 2012 at 8:12am

    I am up early and just waiting to vote for the one that is not trying to suppress our lives. Obamacare has been pushed down our throats and we have to get government off our back and be in control of our own lives again. I will vote for Love of Country…..Romney/Ryan God Bless America

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