At their first event in Sequim, Washington earlier this week, 700 people showed up to support their call for single payer national health insurance.

President Obama, on the other hand, has refused to meet with them.

But that’s not stopping the Mad as Hell Doctors.

They’re heading for Washington.

On September 8, the Oregon doctors will board a 27-foot Winnebago and head East.

Making stops in 30 cities across the country.

Advocating for a single payer national health insurance system.

Paul Hochfeld is an emergency room doctor in Corvallis, Oregon.

And he’s one of the docs who will put his practice on hold for three weeks to get aboard the bus for single payer.

“Our first event was on Sequim, Washington this week,” Hochfeld told Single Payer Action. “We filled a school auditorium with 700 supporters. There were some teabaggers in the room. But they didn’t lash out. Why? Because we are as angry as they are. What is being proposed by Obama is not a solution to what is going on. We share the same anger. Our solution is single payer. Their solution is further to the right. But we are both angry that the system is being manipulated.”

“We disarmed them with our honesty and humor,” Hochfeld said. “We are as mad as they are.”

Hochfeld said that the core group of Oregon doctors donated the seed money to hire the organizers.

Hochfeld himself donated the Winnebago.

Now the Mad as Hell Docs are raising money to finance the rest of the trip.

Hocfeld is not sure of the MPG on the Winnebago.

“It’s less than ten,” Hochfeld says optimistically.

As for Obama refusing to meet with the Mad as Hell Docs, Hochfeld said the doctors are putting in another request to meet.

“One of things that makes us Mad As Hell is elected officials doing the politically expedient thing instead of the right thing,” Hochfeld said. “It’s time for this country to demand that our leaders stand on principle, not politics. So we’re not taking ‘no’ for an answer.”