From Thinkprogress:
Richard Carmona served as President Bush’s first Surgeon General from 2002-2006. Today he spoke before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and revealed that political appointees in the Bush administration muzzled him on key issues such as “stem cell research, contraceptives and his misgivings about the administration’s embrace of ‘abstinence-only’ sex education”:
[A]lthough most Americans believe that their Surgeon General has the ability to impact the course of public health as “the nation’s doctor,” the reality is that the nation’s doctor has been marginalized and relegated to a position with no independent budget, and with supervisors who are political appointees with partisan agendas. Anything that doesn’t fit into the political appointees’ ideological, theological, or political agenda is ignored, marginalized, or simply buried.
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Who and where the hell is the current surgeon general? Geez, even Dr. Koop the weird-looking dude going for the imitation Abe Lincoln beard got 1,000 times more face time than the current one. Even Jocelyn Elders *before* the infamous masterbation speech got more face time.
Who the hell is the drug czar? That person is invisible, too.
Somebody should get out there and ask kids, Got meth? Want dentures?
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