Spin Doctors

Said if you want to call me baby,
Just go ahead now
And if you like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead now….

…..Two Princes – The Spin Doctors







Wow, remember the Spin Doctors – that one hit wonders band of the early1990’s (OK 2 hits).

Well, I’m pleased to announce that the Spin Doctors are alive and well. Maybe not the band (I don’t know what happened to them) but Spin Doctors are alive and well, and working in our healthcare system.

Many might say that they are the MOST IMPORTANT doctors in our health care system. Think of them as ‘Think Doctors’.

Now, Psychiatrists and Psychologists may tell you how to think, and Neurosurgeons treat disease and injury so that you are able to think, but Spin Doctors serve a much more important function – they tell the general public WHAT to think.

Oh, these crafty professionals play us like Emerson played the keyboards, whirling and spinning like a dervish, expertly directing and misdirecting John Q. Public. Like military sappers, they quickly de-fuse every potentially explosive situation. Magicians at heart, they mis-direct us like David Copperfield, and make us believe in the impossible (we all KNOW that that bus could not have vanished in thin air, but hey, it’s gone!),

They live in the shadows, and command huge sums of money for their services, and they are worth every penny. With hundreds of billions of dollars at stake every year, there is no limit to what their keepers will pay them for their smoke and mirrors.

When they are on their game, you never even realize how hard and well they work – but work they do!

Remember when ‘Obama Care’ was in danger of being passed, threatening the inflated livelihood of every overpaid executive at every health care carrier? Oh, the Spin Doctors revved up like the turbines of a 747 on takeoff. And what did they give us? Dying Grandmothers! Every town hall meeting, every discussion on TV, everywhere where ‘Obama Care’ was being discussed, at least somebody brought up Dying Grandmothers! Spontaneously (or so it seemed) the issue of Dying Grandmothers materialized out on thin air simultaneously all across the nation. Brilliant! Who could be in favor of Dying Grandmothers being denied life-saving or life-extending care by the government – no one! Case closed!

Of course, no one is up in arms about Dying Grandmothers being denied care by their Medicare HMO’s – that is an entirely different kettle of fish. I’m sure that some Spin Doctors de-fused that issue right away, and we never even noticed them doing it.

As the great Oz once said: ‘Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!’

So, before we can start solving this mess, we’re going to need Toto to pull the curtain away and expose these shadowy charlatans.

Toto? Oh, they were an 80’s band!

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