Snipped from Forbes.com.

“It’s nonsense that the private insurance companies need to be protected,” he says. “Why? Because they’ve done such a good job?” quips Dr. Scheiner, President Obama’s former physician.

President Obama seems to be on a mission to water down nearly all of the policies that he promised to deliver. Bringing our troops home, closing Guantanamo, gay rights, health care, discontinuing Bush’s policies … it has been an absolute let-down to see someone so full of potential ending up no better than a luke warm, bipartisan apologist. Bipartisanship is not going to work for many reasons (one in which I outline in “Our Current Economic Theory is Wrong!”), but he should know that, right?

Dr. Scheiner, President Obama’s doctor when he was a Junior Senator back in Chicago, is now speaking out against the President’s “appointed” leaders and the plan they are putting together. He mentions how the President’s supposed experts are not in the trenches were it matters, where the help is really needed. They view the world from their ivory towers and have no clue what it is like as a family practitioner in the real world.

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Scheiner is critical of Obama’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary–Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who used to work as the chief lobbyist for her state’s trial lawyers association.

“He doesn’t see all the pain, it’s so tragic out here,” he says. “Obama’s wonderful, but on this one I’m not sure if he’s getting the right input.”

What should the president be focused on? Scheiner thinks that a good health reform would be “Medicare for all,” a single-payer system where the government would cover everyone and pay for it by cutting out waste in the system. “A neurosurgeon gets paid $20,000 for cutting into the neck of my patient. Have him get paid $1 million a year instead of $2 million or $3 million. He won’t starve,” Scheiner says.

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He thinks that Americans have been scared into believing that they will lose the coverage they already have if a public plan is created. And he worries that nobody cares about the 50 million uninsured. “I have people who have lost their jobs and come to me and I give them drug samples,” he says.

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