On May 20,2009, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article co-authored by two physicians with ties to Harvard, the bastion of liberal health policy academia. Dr. Elliot S. Fisher and Dr. Donald M. Berwick penned- “Achieving Health Care Reform ----How Physicians Can Help”. Without elaborating, because it contains the same liberal rhetoric we are all too familiar with, it basically just tells us to take one for the team. For guidance they refer to the Institute of Medicines landmark report Crossing the Quality Chiasm. This is merely a veiled attempt at guising government control as improved information systems blah, blah, blah. It sheepishly concludes- “ ….neither physicians nor anyone else on the front lines can improve care much on their own.” Thus, neither of them has any comprehension of what individual physicians accomplish each day in the aggregate.

If you look at two of the authors of this perspective you will not be surprised to find that they belong to the socialist, globalist Institute of Medicine. Dr. Berwick not only belongs to the IOM but is a member of their Global Health Board which just recently finished their manifesto "The U.S. Commitment to Global Health: Recommendations for the Public and Private Sectors". These people are self avowed advocates of handing our nation's healthcare sovereignty over to the World Health Organization. The WHO states in its Commission on the Social Determinants of Health that it is our obligation to "Tackle the inequitable distribution of power, money and resources." And, "Address the inequities ...in the way society is organized." Most laughable is Dr. Fisher and Dr Berwick's feigned fealty to patient centered care. These people are distributive justice advocates and apostates to the Hippocratic Oath. Distributive justice takes away the rights of the individual and allocates them to the collective. Google search distributive justice + medicine and you will be appalled at how prevalent an idea this is among these IOM types, some of who are presently serving in the Obama White House. So as not to steer away from the playbook, the report also sites global warming, which is perpetrated on the poorer nations who bear no culpability in its creation (women, poor and children hit the hardest), as "possibly the largest health inequity of our time." They affirm that medical intellectual property and patents should be made vulnerable to less fortunate countries to the detriment of those that labored on them and invested in them. They would require that universities and other medical research institutions that take government and philanthropic funding be forced to "..adopt patent policies and licensing practices that enable and encourage the development of technologies to create products for which traditional market forces are not sufficient..". In essence, make products that you will lose money on. Given the example of the American banking system it would be ill advised to take funding at all lest your Constitutional right to private property be abridged. This applies to physicians as well since the IOM recommends that-"Congress should work with federal Executive Branch agencies and departments and U.S. universities to explore opportunities to leverage the U.S. workforce to contribute to solutions to partially address health workforce deficits in low income countries."

In its sycophantic coda dedicated to WHO the report states- "The committee finds that the United States has much to gain from supporting WHO and sees a unique opportunity for U.S leadership in strengthening this global body." With IOM zealots in the White House this comes as no surprise. President Obama wants to commit $63 billion to global health over the next six years.

This evidently is not near enough as, although we give more to WHO than any other country, we are drubbed by the report because we don't pay "our fair share." In goes on to foreshadow in frightening prose-"Given all these factors, WHO's financial struggle significantly hinders it's ability to promote institutional leadership against the pressures of state sovereignty and to advance the application of its legal powers.”

For Fisher and Berwick to moralize to any physician on how to assist these liberals in the destruction of our own livelihood unhinges my indignation.