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  • ▼ 2009 (64)
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      • Roe v. Wade Statement
      • Motivation
      • Why I miss London
      • Oh hai
      • Let us pray...
      • I knew it!
      • ZOMG! Free abortions starting tomorrow!
      • Speech Wars
      • Arkansas!
      • Sir Salman Rushdie
      • Maybe this is why Israel doesn't want reporters in...
      • Prop 8 Maps
      • Remember the fourth amendment? Anyone?
      • President-Elect Obama Asked to Turn Down Boy Scout...
      • Ummm...Trauma much?
      • Oppose Gupta for S.G.
      • "Israel wants to see no harm to the children of Gaza"
      • Joe the Plumber - Dumber than Palin?
      • Remembering Free Speech
      • Time-out Mister!
      • Why this story is interesting to me
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  • Andrew Sullivan
  • Atheist Nexus
  • Bay of Fundie
  • Crooks and Liars
  • Dailykos
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  • Digg
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  • Encyclopaedia Dramatica
  • Evolved and Rat/i/onal
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  • Freedom from Religion Foundation
  • Fundie Watch
  • Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes
  • iGod
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  • Operation Clambake
  • Planet Atheism
  • Richard Dawkins
  • Sam Harris
  • Sarah Palin is Unfit to be VP
  • Southern Poverty Law Center
  • Submitted to a Candid World
  • The Meming of Life
  • Think Progress
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"No, everyone is born Christian. Only later in life do people choose to stray from Jesus and worship satan instead. Atheists have the greatest "cover" of all, they insist they believe in no god yet most polls done and the latest research indicates that they are actually a different sect of Muslims." CARM.ORG

Oppose Gupta for S.G.

Friday, January 9, 2009

Everyone can take 2 minutes and write an e-mail opposing this guy for Surgeon General. He is simply not qualified for this position and this is a political move strictly to gain recognition. I believe the foundation of this Administration should be to appoint the most qualified person for the job.

Oppose Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General

Posted by Bryan Buchan

By Quentin D. Young, M.D. | Physicians for a National Health Program

The report this week that President-elect Obama is considering Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, for the position of U.S. surgeon general is deeply troubling.

Among our concerns are these:

1. He has very little background in public health, preventive medicine or administration.

2. He has openly opposed progressive health reform, going so far as to cite false information to denigrate single payer (e.g. in his error-laden attack on Michael Moore’s film “Sicko”) and parroting the health insurance lobby’s distortions of single payer.

3. As a media figure, he has been disturbingly cozy with Big Pharma. He co-hosts Turner Private Networks’ monthly show “Accent Health,” which airs in doctors’ offices around the country and which serves as a major conduit for targeted ads from the drug companies. Another example: In 2003, despite mounting evidence to the contrary, he publicly downplayed concerns about the dangers of Vioxx. It was removed from the market a year later by its manufacturer, Merck.

4. In the 2008 election campaign, his reporting on John McCain’s health proposals was misleading and implicitly positive, giving undeserved credence to McCain’s claims that buying private health insurance on the open market is a financially viable option for most Americans.

We urge you to write to President-elect Obama and express your opposition to Gupta’s possible nomination, and to urge Obama to nominate a more acceptable candidate for this critically important post. You can do so by clicking here: http://change.gov/page/s/healthcare.

Sincerely yours,

Quentin D. Young, M.D.
National Coordinator

Physicians for a National Health Program
29 E Madison Suite 602, Chicago, IL 60602
Phone (312) 782-6006 | Fax: (312) 782-6007
www.pnhp.org | info@pnhp.org

Posted by Momma at 11:29 AM

 

Oppose Gupta for S.G.
2009-01-09T11:29:00-08:00
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