Dr. Sanjay Gupta, what a choice!  He is no more qualified to be the surgeon general than a parrot is to be a receptionist in a company. The parrot would only say things that it was ordered to, The Gupta, in much the same way has taken up the cause of denying the American people the right to health care.
All he does is parrot the position of the Corporate News Network, better known as CNN. We the people, want and need a single payer system, one which works for the people not the corporations; see, Health Insurance companies. We do not need the Mass. model, whereby people are given the money to buy the health insurance they need to cover their expenses for medical care.
What the people want and need is not more of the corporate greedy and avaricious bastards telling us, what we can and cannot have, it is high time that the
people stand up and let themselves be counted for the
good of all concerned. President Obama, must fulfill his campaign promises or the progressive movement will definitely find another candidate to work for the good of the people of the US.
President Obama, here this one voice, we are more than just one, we are many, and we demand that you work for the people not the “Wall Street Thugs,” the insurance companies, the drug companies and all the associated thieves that will try to steal the thunder
that you proposed during your campaign. Do not forget
it was the people who put you in office not the corporate world.

See this weeks SNL if you like RePugNaCon defenestration like I do:

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Although I agree with much of Obama’s agenda and performance so far, there are two things I have had strong objections to:

First was the selection of Gupta for SG. Not only has he been on the wrong side of many issues, he is obviously more interested in personal publicity and fame tan in doing something that benefits the entire country.

Second is the appalling treatment the Obama team has given to Howard Dean. The man who actually wrote the blueprint and set the stage for Obama’s campaign.

Offering the Surgeon General’s post to Gov. Dean would be a brilliant stroke in my opinion. He’s been in congress, served as governor of Vermont, is a physician and fully understands the healthcare reforms that are needed.

Good riddence, Sanjay. Your powderpuff reporting on the biggest single crisis in america today can now continue unabated. Yes that’s right, our disasterous healthcare system is a microcausm of all that is wrong with america. It may prove to drag us all down.

THANK GOD - GUPTA GONE

What we did not need was a Big Pharma flack as surgeon general, with any conceivable input on a single payer healthcare system.

When HMOs, Big Pharma and doctors are ALL opposed to the single-payer healthcare system that the entire rest of the industrial world regards as essential, Gupta’s withdrawal is a blessing. Even US manufacturing is now agitating for such a system ...

Each of these dinosaur vested interests would be delighted to see such a system stillborn, or neutered, on birth.

ROLL on the NHS of the US.

Tony Benn - the birth of the NHS in the UK - 1948, for Chrissakes -

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbAWNnGSVCw

Uh, yeah.  If you want a lot of time to spend with your family, clearly continuing your practice as a *brain surgeon* is the best path.