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Obama's Doctor for Single Payer * Skewed Healthcare Debate

DAVID SCHEINER, MD, SIDNEY WOLFE, MD, via Barbara Holzer
MARGARET FLOWERS, MD
Available for a limited number of interviews, Scheiner was President
Obama's doctor from 1987 until he entered the White House. Today Dr.
Scheiner is publicly opposing Obama's health plan and is calling for a
single-payer system. See:
https://i2.democracynow.org/2009/7/22/president_obamas_longtime_physicia...

WASHINGTON

DAVID SCHEINER, MD, SIDNEY WOLFE, MD, via Barbara Holzer
MARGARET FLOWERS, MD
Available for a limited number of interviews, Scheiner was President
Obama's doctor from 1987 until he entered the White House. Today Dr.
Scheiner is publicly opposing Obama's health plan and is calling for a
single-payer system. See:
https://i2.democracynow.org/2009/7/22/president_obamas_longtime_physici...

Wolfe is acting president of Public Citizen and director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group. Flowers is co-chair of the Maryland chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program.
They will all be at a news conference at the National Press Club in
Washington, D.C., on Thursday, the anniversary of Medicare's enactment.
A rally will follow. See here.

ISABEL MACDONALD
Macdonald is communications director with FAIR,
the media watch group, which today, with a host of other groups, is
delivering a petition signed by over 12,000 people demanding that the
TV networks include single payer in their coverage of the national
healthcare debate. The petition's signatories include Obama's longtime
physician Dr. David Scheiner, filmmaker Michael Moore, former MSNBC
host Phil Donahue, actors Mike Farrell, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon,
and doctors Quentin Young, Stephanie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein
of Physicians for a National Health Program. The petition is being
presented to the New York City office of ABC News, which disinvited Dr.
Scheiner from its recent forum on healthcare reform, where he'd been
planning to ask Obama a question about single payer. Macdonald just
wrote the piece "Prescription for a Real Healthcare Debate: How Corporate Media Have Ruined the Health Care Debate".

A nationwide consortium, the Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) represents an unprecedented effort to bring other voices to the mass-media table often dominated by a few major think tanks. IPA works to broaden public discourse in mainstream media, while building communication with alternative media outlets and grassroots activists.