Doctors For Obamacare (Bumped)

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Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
My Fox Boston, 2009

Others at Tuesday’s meeting were more supportive of reform.
Dr. Sheila Leavitt, a physician from Newton, said she hoped for changes that would support primary care physicians who aren’t paid as much as specialists. She said some of the rowdy critics at Tuesday’s meeting appeared to be using the same “talking points” as those who showed up at similar meetings around the country.

Boston Herald, 2005

You could call Sheila Leavitt a nutty, annoying, unrelenting Newton leftie who home-schools the kids and raises chickens to share eggs with neighbors, not to eat. She is, of course, a vegetarian. sheila_leavitt.jpg

I see her as one of those rare people who puts their convictions on parade, then faces uneasy consequences. Like the beefy, mad, middle-aged guy who followed her around the Esplanade yesterday, before dawn, tearing down her “Impeach Bush” posters as fast as she put them up. Or the trucker she said rear-ended her at a Mass Pike toll booth, sending her head into the steering wheel of her ’88 Toyota Corolla with bumper stickers saying “War is barbaric” and “Support our troops . . . Draft Jenna & Barbara,” as in Bush. […] She worked for John Kerry’s election, driving Ohio voters to polls. One was an 80-year-old, black double amputee who’d spoiled his mail-in ballot. She said getting another one, on Election Day, took three hours. She also said she saw hours-long lines at black precincts and none at white precincts. Now she’s convinced GOP operatives stole the election and that the press has ignored it.

Bloggers – running the Google searches journalists won’t do!

I just received this message from one of our “Nash-ional” conference attendees (Dr. Sheila Leavitt, MD). She has already done the critical groundwork today to get everything that you have to document the 2004 election theft in front of Jimmy Carter, both directly through his assistant on the newly formed election commission AND through Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Please — EVERYONE OF YOU — take a half day (or more or less) to flood President Carter’s office with documents and charts and graphs and reports and testimony and legal motions and web-links and, and …

The only thing I can’t find is evidence of is a practice.
Update: Gateway Pundit noticed, too. As did Bucks Right. (Correction – Bucks Right noticed first.)
Second Update: I just got off the phone with an Associated Press contact in Massachusetts, informed her of the questions arising on the blogosphere about Sheila Leavitt, and was told they’d check into it.
I suggested they try Google.
Update: A commentor purporting to be Leavitt’s son at Bucks Right states Leavitt received the required medical training but has not practiced in 26 years. Other sources suggest she hasn’t practiced medicine at all.

60 Replies to “Doctors For Obamacare (Bumped)”

  1. Googled her name.She isn’t even a GP,just a Phd in applied sciences. And is personnel assistant(read asskisser) to CEO of Luccrum.
    Yup. She really knows about what she yaps.

  2. Hummmmmmmm. Maybe google ain’t so hot…according to Kate’s update.More than one Sheila Leavitt?

  4. There doesn’t seem to be a Sheila Leavitt, as a medical doctor, in or near Newton, MA.
    The Boston Herald’s praise of her as ‘one of those rare people who put their convictions on parade and face the consequences’ is hypocritical, when we read/hear how the Democrats treat people who also, express their convictions.

  5. A doctor would -have- to be a hard core Democrat partisan to think Obamacare is a good idea.
    Its a good idea for Obama, just not so great for everybody else.

  6. According to HowManyOfMe.com, the 1990 US census showed 12 people named Sheila Leavitt in the US.

  7. Like we do here here, the American Medical Association has a web site called physcician finder. All registered physicians should be listed there.
    I cannot find a “Leavitt” in either Mass. Iowa, or NJ (all states with a Newton)
    Anyone else is welcome to try her in all states. Go to the AMA site and look under Physician Finder.
    I don’t want to call bogus too early but so far finding her registered as a physician has not been possible.

  8. Way back when in my election grassroots political support days, the thing that amazed me the most about a typical riding in a city was how few people were needed for any form of so-called on the ground productive daytime activity. Today it is all contrived soundbites and MSM BS.
    “Obama and the Fanatics” suffer from over planning their rock shows. Giving “face time” to over the top party idiots pretending to be ordinary people at meetings is stupid and depending on the cooperative MSM to cover up their backgrounds won’t work today. They would get better numbers by manipulating the town drunk to show up and throw a shoe at him.
    Also reminds me of those who spout the HRC party lines in newspapers etc and almost instantly trace back to their assorted gravy trains.

  9. Dr. Sheila Leavitt said some of the rowdy critics at Tuesday’s meeting appeared to be using the same “talking points” as those who showed up at similar meetings around the country.
    That would be because those critics, who happen to form a majority of Americans, can see the same problems with ObamaCare.
    Are they supposed to have different, other problems with ObamaCare?
    Maybe Leavitt could point out what those different, other problems are.
    Leavitt is using a Liberal talking point when she characterises people who have a problem with the federal government’s unconstitutional intereference in health care as “rowdy” critics with “talking points”.
    Leavitt is neither listed as a physician in Massachusetts nor Maine, where she has a second home.

  11. Wonderful. Do the “professional” journalists realize that it only takes one habitual blog reader in an office to spread the debunking from one cubicle to another at the speed of morning coffee (or sodas, in the deep south)?
    I am beginning to think that the spin jobs they continue to perpetrate are not for our benefit, but rather, to keep convincing themselves and their colleagues.
    And to boot, they keep killing trees by the millions!

  12. The linked article calls her “a trained physician” which could mean that she is an MD but doesn’t practice.
    Perhaps because of psychological problems?

  14. Does this mean Associated press cannot be relied on for factual information.
    Are they as news disseminators inept, just plain lazy, deliberately misleading or out and out corrupt, with a slobbering Democrat agenda?

  15. How can a bunch of bloggers, living in their living rooms, in pyjamas no less, pull the rug out from under the MSM so easily? In the early days of blogging, an exec at CBS didn’t think it possible. ;-0

  16. Another aspiring doctor at a town-hall meeting….will the authorities bust her for impersonating a MD?
    These people have no shame………

  17. BUT EVEN IF SHE IS A DOCTOR, it wouldn’t necessarily mean much.
    To wit: over-heard 3 doctors at a table behind me last nite at a restaurant in WA state. Leaving, I stopped by for a quick parting chat and to relay some info to them.
    I ran one of my favourite schticks, when travelling America: DID YOU KNOW THAT IT IS ILLEGAL TO BUY OR SELL PRIVATE MEDICAL INSURANCE IN CANADA.
    I tell you it gets ’em every time. Even with the omniscient “I’m a doctor and I want my sausages” doctors. They were truly shocked. One cat even mildly challenged me. And oh, he asked me WHAT I DID. Get my drift. Ass-sniffers the good doctors are eh?
    One cat had been head of the WA Medical association. One cat referred to Canada as socialist (well, yes) when I mentioned I was from Vancouver. I thought it would be rude to ask, but was pretty sure that they would all have voted for Dr Mengelobama.
    Oh, and I mentioned the possible cancellation of 6000 surgeries in Vancouver and my friend’s daughter in law facing a two year wait for surgery for a newly discovered brain tumour.
    I don’t like doctors much. I enjoy baiting them. Once, very drunk in Regina, I told a doctor that I had issues with doctor pay. PREGNANT PAUSE. “I don’t think you’re paid enough”.

  19. I believe that most MSM “journalists” have Rolodexes or high tech equivalents filled with Sheila Leavitts covering all major topics from which to conveniently draw to reinforce PC left-lib or junk science narratives. The stories are essentially pre-written and formulaic. Prior to filing they just need to fill in the quotes. One can only hope that in their next career they find honest work.

  21. Another good example of how liberals happily abandon the notion of truth. She is close enough to a doctor in their eyes, so let’s just call her a doctor.
    Scary stuff.

  22. If she hasn’t practiced for 26 years I doubt very much that she would get a license to practice today. Most licensed professions require that you demonstrate competence in the profession by some combination of practice, continuing education/upgrading, or re-examination. So unless she is actually licensed (and it appears from database searches that she is not), she is just another individual who went to university 30 years ago. Her opinion has as much validity as any other in the room.

  24. Amazing that I get better (and quicker) American news coverage from a graphic artist in Middle O’ Nowhere, Saskatchewan, on DIAL UP, than from the -entire- American media.
    Not so amazing that the entire American media is going broke, fast.
    Faster, please.
    In other news, it seems that The One has called up his posse and kicked some @sses. Single payer option is back on the front burner and nobody never said nuttin’ about no co-ops, nuh uh.
    But this time they Really Mean It(tm). No more bipartisanship, no more Mr. Nice Guy(tm).
    Sure.

  25. “Dr.” Sheila Leavitt said she hoped for changes that would support primary care physicians who aren’t paid as much as specialists.
    If primary care physicians were paid as much as specialists, who, in their right mind, would spend the extra time and money to specialize?

  26. Ok, she’s ~almost~ a doctor giving her a voice to speak for doctors. Then … I’m ~almost~ President of the United States of America and hereby declare I will veto any health care bill that includes a public option, raises anyone’s taxes, promises abortions for free, allows illegals to get free care, yada.

  27. Maureen is right on with her comment that someone who hasn’t practiced medicine in 26 years wouldn’t be considered competent to practice today. Each jurisdiction has slightly different criteria of how much time a physician has to spend practicing yearly and how many years of non-practice before they are no longer considered to be qualified physicians. I think the maximum time of non-practice I’ve seen is 3 years. (Practicing full time this is not an area of medical licensure I think it is necessary for me to be up to date on).
    Also, if someone has completed an MD program they have no first hand knowledge of what it actually means to practice medicine on ones own. Even if someone completes an internship, all they know about is what it is like to practice medicine in a hospital under supervision. Things are quite different in the real world when one is on ones own and no longer has a staff physician to turn to for answers when dealing with difficult cases.
    Score another one for the bloggers who seem to be the only source of reliable news in N. America at this time.

  28. Sgt Lejaune “…the thing that amazed me the most about a typical riding in a city was how few people were needed for any form of so-called on the ground productive daytime activity.”
    I hear you Sgt. I was involved with neighborhood groups for the last 8 years and it was very frustrating. You could have 300 people trying to get some attention to a serious area problem and nobody listening. Then one person would complain about bike paths or dog walking and they were on tv or in the newpapers.
    Most meetings were small and boring and I used to look around and think that the whole process could be hijacked by the bad guys with very little effort.
    And by bad guys I don’t mean people on the right or left I mean criminals.

  29. well obviously the doctors are not paid well enough if they have to drive ’88 Corollas to work. I like Corollas don’t get me wrong, There’s nothing wrong with that product.
    I just don’t see so many of them in the “doctors only parking” beside most hospitals. dunno.

  30. I gather that the Democrats have a new way to insure that they don’t get caught with plants anymore.
    Bammy has got them to buy a case of Mr. Potato Head dolls, which they will then change out the features in the desperate belief that they won’t be found out.
    Having played with my kid’s potato head, I can assure you that they have about the same thought process and intelligence.

  31. Just to add something …
    Even if she did practice medicine 25 years ago so much has changed within the system that her experience is worthless today in relation to a health care reform debate.
    How many people would argue that someone with a 25 year old MBA that never had a job using that degree would be an expert to talk about reforming how companies manage IT infrastructure?

  32. “She said some of the rowdy critics at Tuesday’s meeting appeared to be using the same “talking points” as those who showed up at similar meetings around the country.” Sheila Leavitt
    You have to give them points for chutzpah for a talking point like the above.

  33. FYI, for those who follow the WH on Twitter… it went silent on ObamaCare for a couple of days, and now they are back selling hard…
    What makes me laugh is that through twitter, the WH is preaching to the choir (what’s left of it, anyway).

  37. Someone should contact Weird Al to see if Dr. Sheila was his inspiration for the parody of the Madonna song (Like a Virgin), retitled “Like a Surgeon”. Is she a plant for ObamaCare or just delusional? Cheers.

  38. The article on her states that she went to Italy and came back and became a homeowner.She also had enough money to take the very expensive university course of medicine and never practice.Did she go to Italy just before the medical degree? She now is in real estate in Italy? Where did the money come from? It sounds to me that maybe some Italian money is involved and maybe there is a Lamborgini and not a Corolla in Italy.I wonder who her relatives were.

  41. So paco, not the same paco of Tim Blair fame, I would guess by that weak link.
    I guess you are suggesting that a secretary from Cincinnati, oooh there’s that Ohio connection again, traveled all the way to Boston to astroturf Frank’s town hall? I am just trying to keep your argument straight. And the nutcase with a medical degree who lives in Boston was in no way involved?

  42. Lt. Frank Drebin: Hector Savage. From Detroit. Ex-boxer. His real name was Joey Chicago.
    Ed Hocken: Oh, yeah. He fought under the name of Kid Minneapolis.
    Nordberg: I saw Kid Minneapolis fight once. In Cincinnati.
    Lt. Frank Drebin: No you’re thinking of Kid New York. He fought out of Philly.
    Ed Hocken: He was killed in the ring in Houston. By Tex Colorado. You know, the Arizona Assassin.
    Nordberg: Yeah, from Dakota. I don’t remember it was North or South.
    Lt. Frank Drebin: North. South Dakota was his brother. From West Virginia.

  43. http://www.italyhousescout.com/pjp/bts.html
    http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sheila-leavitt/15/1a0/b81
    http://gobnf.org/i/trm/doctors2.pdf
    LOL…
    http://www.dreamofitaly.com/public/150.cfm?sd=81
    “Sheila Leavitt, a.k.a. the Italian House Scout, who bought her own house near Sarteano five or so years ago, steers her clients away from the countryside and into the center of smaller towns, especially in more affordable southern Tuscany.”
    …just another elitist douche.

  45. Is Obamasiah & the WH Minced News Machine is now pounding into our thick skulls ever day now – it s about reforming Health INSURANCE, not health care.
    So who gives a flying fig what doctors think about Insurance when their specialty is medicine ?
    Just curious

  46. Comrades:
    Let me just congratulate the blogging people’s representatives for a glorious execution of the Alinsky method of creating peace.
    Pick a target and smear as hard as you can until all opposition disappears.
    Wait. The fake doctor is being flushed out with the facts.
    This is terrible news indeed.
    In the Alinsky method, never let the facts stand in the way of a good smear.

  47. Heard anything Kate, re. the AP stringer from Mass? Or do we have to wait for the page 1 correction?

  49. Thousands of unpolitically connect citizens go to meetings (the ONLY meetings whey are ever likely to get to where an elected official shows up) and Nancy Pelosi screams “MOB” “Fascists” “NAZIs” and “Astroturf”.
    Day after day … Democretins with strong party connections and track records as political activists are exposed in their fradulent attempts to portray themselves as something they are not … that being ordinary citizens …. and still the MSM and the rest … refuse to call it what it is.

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