A lot of us have been struggling to find the right voice with which to discuss issues in the healthcare reform circus. And while rational, thoughtful analysis is fine and dandy, there is nothing quite like aggressive paranoia laced with ignorance and feigning insight. It’s the voice for our time and I’m not going to fight it anymore. Hence:

The New England Journal of Medicine published results of a survey of doctors that are cause for alarm. While authored by persons of suspicious origin and/or beliefs, Drs. Salomeh Keyhani and Alex Federman, who both work at a radical think tank, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, the results show just how far socialistic thinking has strengthened its ugly grip in this country. A pie chart depicting the survey’s results divides the responding doctors into three groups: Those who favor only private health insurance, those who favor only public health insurance and those who favor a mix. Perhaps the only hopeful sign is that a whopping 27% of doctors fall into the first group and are depicted in gold. The second group, appropriately colored yellow for you know what, is a meager 10%. The negligible balance of doctors favor a mix of public and private health insurance.

Although many may take solace in the almost three to one spread of private health insurance fans over socialistically thinking boobs for the public option, I do not. Even setting aside the obvious flaws in the study which failed to include any data on the sexual orientation, national origin, accent or color of the respondents, it is worrisome to those of us who know that today’s 10% could well be tomorrow’s 11 or even 12%. To us who man the front lines in the struggle to protect freedom of choice from the government’s nazi-communistic programs, the survey results are a bugle call to action. But what, you ask, can we do? Well, for starters, you can ask your doctor. Yes, ask your doctor if socialism is good for you. Find out what the side effects are. Discuss alternatives. Be sure to tell your doctor about any fundamental beliefs and convictions you have. Then, assuming your doctor has shown himself or herself to be a peddler of socialism, vandalize as much of the office as you can while running out the door shouting out the truth to those in the waiting room. Concerted and determined action of this kind could well turn that 10% into 9 or even 8%. And always remember that when Paul Revere said “give me liberty or give me death” he wasn’t ordering alternative desserts, he was talking to one of Obama’s death panels.