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RPSM on Fox Business News (?!!?)

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A number of RPSM faculty and residents recently participated in a 6/21/2012 Fox Business News program about health care reform entitled: Is Obamacare a Good Law? During the program RPSM resident Dr. Manisha Sharma debated John C. Goodman. Here is the video:

Here is a brief description of the evening by Dr. Dan O’Connell:

RPSM on FOX (?!!?)

In an expected turn of events I was recruited by a bunch of Family Medicine residents to join them cheering Manisha Sharma PGY2 FP-Social Medicine, who was invited to debate the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) deep inside the FOX BUSINESS NETWORK lair on “Stossel”.

Eight RPSM residents and a few other Docs for the 99% were in the studio audience supporting Manisha to “Occupy Fox” .

RPSMers in studio audience (and in fox-themed photo below): Hima Ekhanadam, Janel L’Oficial (and fiance Andrew), Rachelle Darout, Manisha Sharma, Sophia Lee, Roona Ray, Will DeWitt, Dan OConnell, and Shuchin Shukla.For those who don’t know, FOX BUSINESS NETWORK functions as a cross between a cable business channel and a minor league for Fox News Network, (which is by far the highest rated cable news channel, approximately twice that of MSNBC and the CNNs.  FBN has maybe 1/10th FNN’s ratings.

The episode  featured a surgeon who thought Obamacare would bring armageddon (or something like that) , 2 small business people who thought Obamacare would bring the collapse of the global economy (or something), John Stossels libertarian philosophy that if sick people have to pay cash for care instead of insurance companies or government,  we’ll save money because they’ll buy less health care, and a debate between economist John Goodman PhD, and Manisha Sharma MD on the merits of Obamacare.
Questioners from the audience during Q and A included Shuchin Shukla, Roona Ray, and Dan O’Connell.  Q and A respondants included the Libertarian host, the Right-Wing Think Tank Economist, the Conservative Small Business spokesperson against Manisha, who clearly knew her stuff (that’s 3-to-1, for those keeping score at home)

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