By Dave Andrusko

I've been around the block enough times to know the fallacy of generalizing from your own experience or even from what people you trust have experienced. But when my doctor, and the doctors other family members use, border on panic when talking about ObamaCare, it gets my attention.

So, in combination with all I have read from NRLC's Legislative Department and the Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics, I suppose I was primed to read, "Dear Patients: Vote to Repeal ObamaCare--Don't believe Democrats who promise to fix the bill once they're re-elected," by Hal Scherz that appears in today's Wall Street Journal.

Dr. Scherz, president and cofounder of Docs4PatientCare, is unabashedly, fervently opposed to ObamaCare. His essay spells out the reasons in passionate detail [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703369704575461840575037482.html].

To mention just a couple of reasons…

• Dr. Scherz, a pediatric urological surgeon at Georgia Urology and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, flatly rejects the idea that voters should believe the same Democrats who gave us ObamaCare can be trusted to "fix it." It is, he writes, a "tactic," an "escape route, a chance to distance themselves from the president with a vague promise to fix health-care reform in the next Congress." Scherz adds near the end, ""In the face of voter anger some Democratic candidates are now trying to make a cosmetic retreat, calling for minor modifications or pretending they are opposed to government-run medicine. Once the election is over, however, they will vote with their party bosses against repealing this bill."

• The issue of ObamaCare is literally a matter of life and death for millions of Americans, he writes. As a result the members of his organization are "posting a 'Dear Patient' letter in our waiting rooms." That letter spells out what ObamaCare means, the core of which is, "This new law politicizes medicine and in my opinion destroys the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship that makes the American health care system the best in the world."

• Much of the rest of the op-ed is a blistering critique of the manner in which ObamaCare was enacted ("with legal bribes and Chicago style threats"), its enormous cost, its bureaucratic oversight of medicine, and its serious threat of rationing.

Take the time to read, "Dear Patients: Vote to Repeal ObamaCare--Don't believe Democrats who promise to fix the bill once they're re-elected," at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703369704575461840575037482.html.

It is crucial that everyone understands (in Dr. Scherz's words), that "In making doctors answerable in the federal bureaucracy this bill [ObamaCare] effectively makes them government employees and means that you and your doctor are no longer in charge of your health care decisions."

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