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Obama Names Surgeon General Nominee (Note To GOP: It's A Trap)
AngelHedgie
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Well, with the hullabaloo that is the Sotomayor hearing, the news has been quiet about Obama's nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin.
So, why is the good doctor a trap? Well, you tell me:
Oh, did I mention she's the first black woman to become the president of the Alabama state medical society? How about hitting a trifecta of barrier-breaking when she was named to the board of the AMA, becoming the first woman, woman of color, and person under 40 to sit on said board. Oh, she's also a MacArthur Genius grant recipient as well.
If the Pubbies are smart, they'd write this off as a loss and let the nomination sail through. If the Pubbies are the Pubbies we've all grown to know and love...they're going to come at her with both barrels blazing. Which will not end well for them.
So, why is the good doctor a trap? Well, you tell me:
Regina Benjamin practices as a country doctor in rural Alabama. As founder and CEO of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic, Dr. Regina Benjamin is making a difference to the underserved poor in a small fishing village on the Gulf Coast of Alabama. It is a town of about 2500 people, about 80 percent of her patients live below the poverty level, and Dr. Benjamin is their only physician.
...Dr. Benjamin earned an M.B.A. degree in 1991. The same year she was selected for the American Medical Association’s “Unsung Hero Campaignâ€. In 1995 she was named a “Person of the Week†on ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, and in 1997 she received the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights. She was interviewed by People magazine in the article “Always On Call,†in May, 2002 and was the subject of an “Everyday Heroes†feature in the January 2003 issue of Reader’s Digest.
When her clinic was reduced to rubble by Hurricane Georges in 1998, Dr. Benjamin rolled up her sleeves and helped rebuild it, and continued to serve her patients by making house calls in her 1988 Ford pickup. As she explains her motivation, “I hope I make a difference one person at a time. By making a patient feel better, by being able to tell a mother that her baby is going to be okay. Whether her baby is four or forty-four the look on the mother’s face is the same. I also hope that I am making a difference in my community by providing a clinic where patients can come and receive health care with dignity.â€
I have been involved in community activities since high school, and organized medicine such as the American Medical Association and the State medical associations, since medical school. By being involved, working hard and trying to do a good job, I have been elected to positions of leadership. I have remained involved to help improve healthcare in our community. Career-wise I still have a lot to do. We still have a lot of problems with our health care system, the high number of uninsured and underinsured, the need for improved access to healthcare services as well as a need for improved personal responsibility of our own health, good education, clean air, clean water and good work place environments.
Oh, did I mention she's the first black woman to become the president of the Alabama state medical society? How about hitting a trifecta of barrier-breaking when she was named to the board of the AMA, becoming the first woman, woman of color, and person under 40 to sit on said board. Oh, she's also a MacArthur Genius grant recipient as well.
If the Pubbies are smart, they'd write this off as a loss and let the nomination sail through. If the Pubbies are the Pubbies we've all grown to know and love...they're going to come at her with both barrels blazing. Which will not end well for them.
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That being said, Sessions is a huge tool.
Probably the same committee that vetted Sebelius.
Care to explain how she's not qualified?
Then why make the insinuations that you did? We're not idiots here - we're more than capable of reading between the lines.
I bet she was unqualified, too.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Care to read a little more into that?
All I said was what I said. I'm not on the warpath here. Just making an observation.
this is one of those things AH where you have to remember people don't always have the worst possible motivations.
Given Obama being a smoker, I wonder what her approach to tobacco regulation is going to be. Personally, I think it's criminal such a prolific product, known to be addictive and made increasingly so by its distributors, isn't regulated by the FDA.
No family should have to go without fair access to life-saving bacta technology.
This is only because you haven't argued in good faith in years.
I remember reading somewhere that quite a few of our presidents were former smokers who picked up the habit again during their campaign.
I'm not particularly anti-tobacco. Hell, just in the drawers around me I have cigarettes, cigars, and a pipe. I smoke all the time.
I just think our policy toward its dispersal and subsidizing is beyond the point of conflict of self-interest.
That's where Buford "Bubba" Blue is from, and I believe that hospital is the beneficiary of Forrest Gump's largess.
Just thought I'd point that out.
Yeah and some of us are idiots!
Wait.....
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When is Obama going to follow through on his promises to invest in non-bacta based medical solutions? I'm tired of this country being the pawn of the Tyferran bacta cartels.
With our recent restaurant ban (well, mostly ban), it seems the climate even here is changing.
The position may be mostly PR but it does put her in more or less in charge of 6000 people so it's no joke.
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/about/index.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/11/AR2009061100323.html
Apparently it passed the House and Senate in June.
She's too fat.
I wish I was joking.
Well I wish her the best.
*facepalm*
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You know what, that makes me happy.
If that's the best they got, then they got nothing.
That's MUCH easier to deal with than a poorly worded comment about race and experience.
Not that I'm exactly counting on Pat Buchanan or Fox and Friends to not bring it up.
I don't want a bureaucrat standing between me and my floating medical droid.
Unfortunately, I think it's pretty accurate.