Education
Doctor Scheiner graduated from Princeton University and gained his Doctor of Medicine
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David Scheiner
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He currently still maintains his medical practice in Hyde Park and has worked for University of Chicago Hospitals and Rush University Medical Center. In August 2009, Doctor Scheiner appeared on numerous television and media outlets, including Cable News Network"s Larry King Live, hosted by Wolf Blitzer, and Home Box Office"s Real Time with Bill Maher, hosted by Bill Maher, appearing as a proponent of a single-payer government health system, in view of the recent debate surrounding United States. health care reforms proposed by President Obama, whose health care plans he termed as being too "timid". During his appearance on Larry King Live on August 11, 2009, when he headlined that day"s episode, he discussed the issue with Blitzer and other commentators, including former Republican Party presidential candidate Ron Paul and Dean Ornish, stating how health insurance companies had interfered in the treatment of several of his patients and advocating usage of the single-payer system.
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He was United States President Barack Obama"s personal physician from 1987 till 2008 while he was based in Chicago, and is a leading member of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP).
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