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0bama Picks a Winner

Author | jack | Posted on | July 13, 2009 | 4 Comments

OK, I admit I know only the little that the WaPo article has printed, but from that little bit, Dr. Regina Benjamin seems like a good pick for Surgeon General.  She built her non-profit Alabama clinic, rebuilt it after Katrina, and rebuilt it again after it was destroyed by fire.  She could have quit and gone to make more money with a for-profit practice.  (And she won’t make a whole lot as our Surgeon General, either.)

I expect her to advocate the “public option” or a single-payer system.  Any 0bama appointee will, so that cannot be counted against her.  But 0bama has found a doctor whose overriding concern is her patients, and who simply will not be deterred.  That is rare indeed.

Category: Health Care, Obama files

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4 Responses to “0bama Picks a Winner”

  1. jacob
    July 13th, 2009 @ 10:34 pm

    OK. How did she get past the socialists. She appears to be a self starter who does not cry in her sleeve, ‘whoa is me.!’ The place gets flattened and she rebuilds. I am very suspicious.

  2. Rtwng Extrmst
    July 13th, 2009 @ 10:47 pm

    Anyone who really is for the patients could never support Obamacare.

  3. Bob
    July 14th, 2009 @ 6:00 am

    very surprising – maybe BO looked at the wrong resume?

  4. Wolverine
    July 16th, 2009 @ 3:31 pm

    Perhaps the first thing that Dr. Benjamin should address is the declining mental capacity of her own political party. Last year about one half of the voters in Minnesota elected a clown to the U.S. Senate. The Minnesota Supreme Court then acted complicitly in their choice. The leaders of the Democratic Clown College in the Senate named this Minnesota clown to the Judiciary Committee. The Minnesota clown’s first contribution to the current SCOTUS confirmation hearings was to discuss with the Obama nominee a mutual affection for a certain episode of the old 1950’s TV show “Perry Mason.” This country is seriously headed for the toilet.

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