Inside the 9/12 protest

Published September 12, 2009 4:00am ET



Dr. David Dunch had never been to a political demonstration before. Yet on Saturday Dunch, a surgeon who has practiced for 25 years in Youngstown, Ohio, found himself marching down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, wearing a white medical coat with a small American flag tucked into the breast pocket, explaining what’s wrong with President Obama’s national health care proposals.

“It’s a mistake,” Dunch says.  “It’s going to result in ultimate rationing and limiting care to our elderly.  We need universal access of patients with pre-existing illnesses.  We need to open up the 50 states to all insurance plans.  We need tort reform.  We don’t have to trash the current system.”

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