Rush Limbaugh excerpts: To him, the villains in health care are insurance companies and doctors.

Rush Limbaugh ^ | 7/23/09 | Rush Limbaugh

[dervish]

RUSH: No, no, no, my point is not to say Obama was wrong when he said doctors take out tonsillectomy -- take out tonsils for profit. Not wrong. Didn't make a mistake. He was on the attack. To him, the villains in health care are insurance companies and doctors. And he's out to destroy 'em. Like he's destroying your job market.

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RUSH: I want to tell you what he was trying to do with that comment. For the president of the United States to accuse pediatricians of looking at a fee reimbursement chart and seeing that a tonsillectomy pays them more than anything else and thus choosing the tonsillectomy, do you realize the impugning of their integrity, the impugning of their character? This man last night was trying to gin up hatred for doctors. He was essentially calling them criminals, performing unnecessary organ removal for profit. I found it beneath contempt. I found it outrageous. This is not presidential. And it was shortly after that that he then lit into the insurance companies. (doing Obama impression) "Have you seen their profit? In this economy? Have you seen their profit?" None of his damn business. Remember during one of the debates during the campaign he talked about the oil company profits. And he said something like, "And they're just not going to let go of those easily." He's after 'em.

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I don't know if you're a doctor, pediatrician, we also learned last night that Barack Obama thinks that you purposely, unnecessarily take out kids' tonsils to line your pockets. He gave a specific example. Your kid, your child, sore throat, repeated sore throat, you go to the pediatrician, you go to the doctor, and the doctor says, "Well, it could be allergies, it could be this, it could be that," and then he looks at the fee reimbursement schedule and he sees there's a lot of money in a tonsillectomy, predatory tonsillectomy.

So he takes the tonsils out when it may not be necessary. We're going to tighten down on this. We're going to make it more efficient. If the tonsils don't need to come out we're not going to have the tonsils come out. Now, pediatricians for the most part are not the surgeons. If a pediatrician says a kid needs the tonsils out, go to hospital, the surgeon does it. So what's going to happen, the pediatrician is going to get a kickback from the surgeon? Do you realize, folks, to sit there and accuse doctors? Look, I'm sure doctors do a lot of unnecessary stuff, but they're not doing it to line their pockets, they're doing it to protect themselves against tort lawsuits. (interruption) How am I confusing you? No, he did not say the government wasn't going to be involved. Whatever he said last night, none of it was true, none of it. He said he's a deficit reducer. He said our economy is growing. We're back from the brink. He said he's cut deficit spending. He doesn't like government. And none of it was true, Snerdley. It was blatant. It was breathtaking to watch this. It was so eye-opening.

[dervish]

This is the equivalent of class warfare on the healthcare system. Obama is trying to justify the government taking over and making decisions instead of doctors. The government must decide because doctors are criminals performing unnecessary surgery for money.

Never mind that under the current system you can change your doctor if you don't trust them. Never mind that in Obama's example the pediatrician does the referral for surgery but does not get the surgical fee.

Obama has repeatedly promised that it is not his intention for any new healthcare system to come between a patient and their doctor. But his comments here show his intention that the government NOT the doctor would be and ought to be the decision maker.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Caller on today’s show called Obama a traitor to this country. About time!

[madprof98]

Isn’t tort reform also a big Democrat cause? It isn’t??? Wonder why not?

[browniexyz]

I guess you’ve never heard of The Tasseled Loafer Committee-composed of fat cat Dem tort lawyers?

[3niner]

Ah yes, another example of an @$$h*le, Democrat, lawyer politician projecting his own character traits onto far better people.

[dervish]

I am heartened by the delay in the healthcare bill, but we can’t relax.

Obama is determined to destroy everything good in our country.

[MarMema]

What is also breathtaking is that anyone actually voted for this lying idiot.

[exDemMom]

I wonder why it’s evil for doctors and insurance companies to profit by providing tangible services to people, but lawyers who profit much more by leeching off others are irreproachable?

[dervish]

I wonder why in an economy with soaring unemployment Obama impugns health insurance company profits. As Rush said on FOX tonight, he wants the economy to fail and for people to be unemployed.