How a Left-wing group is turning doctors into activists
A Left-wing group is turning doctors across the country into political activists.
Voting: ‘A therapeutic tool’
Approximately 50,000 physicians are now pressuring patients in Left-wing demographics to register to vote. These doctors wear badges displaying QR codes for patients to scan with their phones, which takes them to a website that registers them as voters.
The badges and the website are provided by Vot-ER, a Left-wing nonprofit group that promotes voting as a therapeutic treatment for patients. Physicians at the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, for example, claim that voter registration is a "therapeutic tool" that "helps empower patients and makes them feel good." Dr. Julie Graziane, an inpatient psychiatrist in the hospital’s Geriatrics unit, says that "voting is an important part of the recovery process.” Vot-ER founder Dr. Alister Martin once told a patient who had an asthma attack that voting was the “only way” to get the “smog out of the air.”
Staffed by Left-wing radicals
While Vot-ER claims to be nonpartisan, Dr. Martin is a Democrat donor who served as an adviser to Kamala Harris. The organization hosts regular training sessions on “medical racism” conducted by instructors who list their pronouns. One of the instructors is Vot-ER Chief of Staff Leah Ford, who says her pronouns are “they/them” and was once Planned Parenthood’s Volunteer of the Year.
Like Ford, Vot-ER Executive Director Aliya Bhatia is a Left-wing radical. She has donated to Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), the Washington Free Beacon reports. In her bio on Vot-ER’s website, Bhatia says “she prioritizes diversity and inclusion in all her endeavors.”
Martin, Bhatia, and Ford have all met with Biden White House officials.
Funded by dark Democrat money
Vot-ER is funded by Left-wing dark money groups, including the Tides Foundation. The Tides Foundation itself is sponsored by a long list of progressive foundations including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Google founder Sergey Brin’s Sergey Brin Family Foundation, and many others.
Sixty-four percent of clinics that use Vot-ER’s tools mostly serve Black and Hispanic patients, strong Democrat cohorts. Twenty-nine percent of clinics serve patients under 24, another demographic that leans predominantly Left.
Medical institutions who wish to use Vot-ER’s must complete an application which asks if the majority of the institution’s patients are Black, “Hispanic/Latinx,” “LGBTQIA+,” 24 and under, or other minority groups. The application also asks if the institution “views itself as a space that is designed to serve LGBTQIA+ communities.”
Public health penetration
Vot-ER’s penetration of the health industry is deep. Over 89,000 patients have been registered to vote through the organization, whose tools are used in emergency rooms, psychiatric hospitals, palliative care departments, cancer centers, substance abuse clinics, and neonatal intensive care units. Doctors in approximately 700 medical centers use Vot-ER materials to register patients regardless of whether they are fit for discharge or psychiatrically stable.
In a now-deleted press release, Vot-ER announced it had partnered with Epic Systems, the country’s largest manufacturer of electronic health record systems. Epic’s technology allows doctors to enter patients’ voter status in their health records.
According to Martin, Vot-ER worked with the American Medical Association to pass a resolution in 2022 declaring voting a “social determinant of health.”
