http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be-xl6ehrA4

Enjoy.

Emails, calls, let’s not let up the fight against the assaults on our freedom!

My wife is a Board Certified Emergency Physician and the Assistant Director of a prominent EM residency program.

She is horrified at the prospect of Obamacare for any number of reasons, but to her the most outrageous is his intent not to combine any kind of tort reform with his “cost savings” program.

Every day she and her residents order tens of thousands of dollars in tests that they know perfectly well are neither needed nor necessary because they always have to be conscious of what a bottom-feeding ambulance chasing lawyer out to make himself rich will sound like when he talks about it in court and asks why you didn’t do “everything possible”

So for a $200 injury they order $2000 worth of teats because it’s suicidal not to.

And the cost of malpractice insurance is one of the single largest, maybe THE single largest, factors driving those “skyrocketing medical costs” that the politicians are always hollering about.

(The hypocrisy of someone like John Edwards, who made $45 million on nine spurious cases, compaing about the high cost of medicine is breathtaking).

But since, as everyone knows, the single largest group of contributors to the Obama campaign was the Trial Lawyers, he’s not going to do a thing to limit $50 million or $100 million judgements for relatively minor “mistakes” or even non-mistakes that you can convince a jury of 12 people who don’t know any better to hand over “insurance company money” without having to explain that “the insurance company money” originated with individuals paying their medical bills.

I’m an expatriate second-generation Californian, driven from San Diego by the deterioration I saw beginning in 1976. My siblings still live there, but struggle with the high taxes, diminishing services, and the continuing deterioration of the society there.

Where I live now isn’t much better, tax-wise, but it’s more affordable.

I am also a health-care professional, pro-life and in dread of the “Freedom of Choice Act” with obama and a filibuster-proof runway to do whatever he pleases.

I would have been right where the rally was on the bayfront — but I have to work.

Maybe another time. But again, count us there in spirit, and fully in support.