By Some conservatives might joke that you’d have to be crazy to vote for Kamala Harris, but in the all-important battleground state of Pennsylvania, Democrats are literally using doctors to get the psychotic registered for their party.
At the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, an 89-bed facility affiliated with Pennsylvania State University, many patients suffer from mental health conditions such as schizophrenia, substance abuse, depression, and bipolar disorder. In an unconventional approach, some liberal doctors at the facility have decided that registering patients to vote for Democrats will soothe their mental anguish and help them live happier lives.
The Washington Free Beacon reports that Democrats have gone so low as to take advantage of the mentally ill in an effort to stay in the White House.
Located in a swing state that could decide the 2024 election, the hospital asks psychiatric inpatients, regardless of diagnosis, if they would be interested in “voter registration tools” that let them check their nearest polling station and register to vote online. Patients can also request a mail-in ballot with “assistance” from hospital staff, according to a pair of papers about the project, which began in 2020.
Since then, the hospital has continued registering patients—even those who are not near discharge and have not yet been stabilized—on the grounds that voting, as the institute puts it, is a “therapeutic tool” that “helps empower patients and makes them feel good.”
“Voting is an important part of the recovery process,” Julie Graziane, a geriatric psychiatrist who leads the hospital’s civic engagement efforts, said in a press release. Neither she nor Ruth Moore, the hospital’s head of community engagement, responded to requests for comment.
Initially, the Pennsylvania-based institute was relying on “voter support” materials created by its own staff. In more recent years, however, it has turned to the nonprofit Vot-ER, which develops “nonpartisan civic engagement tools” for “every corner of the healthcare system.”
The ethics are obviously questionable and the move has already begun receiving condemnation from doctors.
“I can’t even begin to tell you how inappropriate this is,” said Sally Satel, a lecturer in psychiatry at Yale Medical School. “It’s such a contamination of a physician’s role.”
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Founded by emergency room physician Alister Martin of Harvard Medical School, a former adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris, Vot-ER has assisted over 50,000 doctors in registering their patients to vote using a badge with a QR code that links to an online voter registration platform.
Although it claims nonpartisanship, Vot-ER is staffed and funded by progressive entities and operates under the nonprofit A Healthier Democracy, which emphasizes DEI as essential for fair healthcare. As the 2024 election approaches, Vot-ER, supported by major medical groups and a Biden-Harris executive order, transforms healthcare centers into political engagement hubs for Democrats.
The Free Beacon continues: “Doctors have used Vot-ER’s tools to register patients in cancer hospitals, emergency rooms, substance abuse clinics, and palliative care departments. Some have even registered the parents of newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit, where infants in critical condition receive care.”
In May, The Washington Examiner blew the lid wide open on how the Biden White House was using its power to enlist doctors to cajole their patients into voting.
“Vot-ER is a progressive hub poised to play a key role in voter mobilization in the lead-up to November…That mobilization effort is at the heart of a 2021 Biden executive order gifting unprecedented new tools to federal agencies to register voters with the help of ‘approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and state officials.’
And Vot-ER, according to documents unearthed through the Freedom of Information Act, appears to be directly linked to the White House’s efforts to make Biden’s order a reality. The documents indicate that two top staffers from the Boston-based charity were present at a 2021 meeting with representatives from the Executive Office of the President, the Department of Justice, and other agencies, as well as other outside left-wing groups, to plan implementing the order.
Biden’s 2021 executive order, issued in March of that year, required every federal agency to hand over a plan to the president’s domestic policy adviser detailing how it would increase voter registration and participation. Conservative legal experts, including fellow Hans von Spakovsky at the Heritage Foundation, say that agencies generally have no business registering voters over a risk of the current administration using the full weight of the government to push a partisan agenda.”
The news that some doctors have placed voting ahead of patient wellbeing is just another example in a long list of institutions—universities being the most prominent—that leftism has undermined over the past few years in their ever-present quest for power.
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.#lefties— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 10, 2015
What next? Terrorist murderers for Kamala?
Never mind, don’t answer that question…
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