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NYT: Bush preparing contingency plan to draft medical personnel



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But he's NOT planning a draft, really, I mean it. I mean he's planning FOR a draft, but there won't ever BE a draft they're still telling us, we're just preparing for one in case we need it, even though we won't ever need it and even if we did we wouldn't do it.

The Selective Service has been updating its contingency plans for a draft of doctors, nurses and other health care workers in case of a national emergency that overwhelms the military's medical corps.

In a confidential report this summer, a contractor hired by the agency described how such a draft might work, how to secure compliance and how to mold public opinion and communicate with health care professionals, whose lives could be disrupted.


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