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The National Doctors’ Tea Party
Published: Sunday, August 8, 2010 12:24 AM CDT
Dr. George Watson
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

While the original Boston Tea Party was sparked by a Tea Tax in 1773, the Doctors’ Tea Party of Aug. 7, 2010, is a response to an over-reaching, out-of-control government.

TEA stands for “Taxed Enough Already.” Originally a grassroots organization of private citizens, passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has stirred the sleeping masses of private physicians. These are the doctors who adhere to the original Oath of Hippocrates, preserving the patient-doctor relationship as sacred and confidential.

For historical perspective, remember the first battle of the Revolutionary War was fought April 19, 1775, at Lexington, Massachusetts. The Declaration of Independence was signed July 4, 1776, and the Revolutionary War lasted from 1775 to 1783—eight long years!

“Attention to Orders!” shouted the adjutant. George Washington then gave the General Orders in 1776: “The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty — that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.”

Washington’s sobering words could be paraphrased to doctors in 2010: “The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this medical profession, and the safety of our sick and bleeding Patients depend. Remember doctors and Patriots, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty—that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity (and Patients), if you do not acquit yourselves like men.”

Richard Amerling, M.D., Board Member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons wrote The Physicians’ Declaration of Independence in December, 2009. See this at www.aapsonline.org

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons filed suit against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or ACA) on March 26, 2010, specifically challenging the unconstitutional individual mandate.

Why is the National Doctors’ Tea Party necessary? The AMA would have you believe that it represents all the M.D.’s, when only 17 percent of practicing physicians are members. Without the AMA’s endorsement, Obamacare might not have passed. Without the lucrative monopoly of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codebooks, the AMA would have lost $70 million revenue from sales of the books to every doctor who bills insurance. Do you smell bribery or extortion? So, doctors who believe in the practice of private medicine—the patient-doctor relationship free of third party intrusion—were left out of the discussions. Now these doctors are speaking out on behalf of their patients’ privacy and protection.

And the doctors must protect themselves! S.2170 in Massachusetts would make licensure conditioned on accepting “payment at the lowest statutory reimbursement rate” under the Massachusetts “Affordable Health Plan.” Under PPACA, Dr. Robert Moser, of Georgetown University, said, “…it will develop incrementally…there will be universal capitation, the elimination of profit, the end of ‘futile care.’”

Dr. Amerling and Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet wrote, “The time has come for individual physicians to act in their own and their patients’ interests, and to defend the medical profession they should hold dear. Physicians must declare independence from third party control in our offices and for our patients, particularly from state-run health care.”

The National Doctors’ Tea Party is every doctor’s chance to fight, as a Freeman for his patients and his profession. Should he fail, he will work as a slave on the government PLANtation.



George R Watson, D.O., serves as president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons