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Sally Pipes: Medical School Students Need Second Opinion About ObamaCare

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Help Dr. Beth Haynes, Executive Director of the Benjamin Rush Society and D4PC executive Board member, find students interested in starting chapters at their school. There is a time sensitive need t o locate students in the NYC area.

Sally Pipes, writing on Investors Business Daily, has an excellent article about the need to give medical students more information about Obamacare.

She writes:

Recently on "Meet the Press," Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney raised eyebrows when he promised to keep portions of President Obama's health care law in place if elected. The two candidates will no doubt spar over how they'll deal with health reform in the debates, which kick off this month.

One group that will be anxiously watching is medical students — who have identified themselves as ObamaCare's top cheerleaders. Roughly 80% of medical students support ObamaCare, according to a survey of 1,032 at 10 medical schools across the country published in the science journal PLOS ONE.

Their support for the law makes little sense, as ObamaCare stands to make their chosen career path much less stable.

How can medical students be so out of step with practicing doctors, 44% think ObamaCare represents a step in the wrong direction? Or with the American people, a slight majority of whom — just over 50% — favors repealing the law and has since 2010?

Read the entire article here.
  
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