"Mad As Hell" doctors confront Obama on healthcare

- An Open Letter from Mad As Hell -

Dear Mr. President:



This September, as the healthcare debate rages in Congress, our core group of six doctors from Oregon will be embarking on an historic road trip across America. We will be conducting town halls in twenty-six cities as we make our way to Washington, D.C. Our mission is to educate our fellow citizens as to why a single payer health care system is the only means to lasting, substantive health care reform for this country.



All told, our group has 191 years of combined, real-world medical experience, much of it spent working in a system that serves neither patients nor their doctors. As physicians who have sworn an oath to behave in accord with the highest possible ethical, medical standards, we have all reached the same conclusion: it is our professional obligation to speak out against a for-profit system of health care that is fatally compromising the health and well being of our patients, their families and our nation.



We will be in Washington D.C. on the morning of Oct. 1 and it would be a distinct honor if you would meet with our modest delegation to discuss the future of health care as well as the moral, social and fiscal imperative of a enacting a single-payer system for America at this moment in our history.

Dr. Paul Hochfeld Emergency Room Physician -Corvallis, OR



Dr. Eugene Uphoff FamilyPhysician-Portland, Oregon



Dr. Samuel Metz Anesthesiologist-Portland,Oregon



Dr. Michael Huntington RadiationOncologist-Corvallis,Oregon



Dr. Joseph Eusterman Internal Medicine-Portland, Oregon - Retired



Dr. Robert Seward InternalMedicine-Portland, Oregon