Dr.s DONALD J. PALMISANO, WILLIAM G. PLESTED II AND DANIEL H. JOHNSON JR. (all former presidents of the American Medical Association) have a piece in the Wall Street Journal Opinion section today. Here’s a taste:

We aren’t among the doctors invited to a Rose Garden event today to “join the President in pushing for health insurance reform this year and [who] have offered their help and support,” as a White House press release put it. It’s unfortunate only supporters of the president’s plans will be there. Mr. Obama has missed an opportunity to learn more about the real issues facing patients and doctors and to formulate a plan that truly puts patients in control with doctors as trusted advisers.

The United States has the best health care in the world today, and thanks to the ever-expanding frontiers of science and medical innovation the brightest days are ahead. It is true that there are Americans who fall through the cracks of our medical system every day—and as a caring nation, we must do what we can to expand access to medical care to those who need it. But this can be accomplished without a costly and inefficient government overhaul of the entire system. One easy reform would be to enable individuals to buy policies offered in any state, not just where they live. This will enhance competition. But more government-run health insurance will only lead to disaster.

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If the goal of reform is to provide the best possible patient care, let’s take the government-controlled “public option”—and any legislative trick that could lead to a public option—off the table. It will result in long waiting lines to see a doctor, substandard care, and an end to medical discovery.

As the saying goes . . . read it all!

And, the next time you hear the President or any of the Dem wits in Congress say that no one else has a plan for healthcare reform, read it all, again.

Yeah, the Liberals have a plan — a plan to turn the best health care system in the world into a socialists’ backwater where all have access to little — except for their exalted selves, natch.

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