Obama’s Hoof-in-Mouth Disease

Town Hall ^ | 8-12-09 | Lawrence Kudlow

[two23]

His hand picked, planted audience were too dazzled by winks to even notice.

[matginzac]

“What an ultra- maroon...” B. Bunny

[screaminsunshine]

No they have to defend. They have the best criminal defense lawyers behind the scenes figuring out the “spin”.

[neverdem]

Transcript of President Obama's July 22nd press conference

And part of what we want to do is to make sure that those decisions are being made by doctors and medical experts based on evidence, based on what works -- because that's not how it's working right now. That's not how it's working right now. Right now doctors a lot of times are forced to make decisions based on the fee payment schedule that's out there.

So if they're looking -- and you come in and you've got a bad sore throat, or your child has a bad sore throat or has repeated sore throats, the doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself, you know what, I make a lot more money if I take this kid's tonsils out. Now that may be the right thing to do, but I'd rather have that doctor making those decisions just based on whether you really need your kid's tonsils out or whether it might make more sense just to change -- maybe they have allergies, maybe they have something else that would make a difference.

So you have docs being insulted like some shyster lawyers over an implausible medical scenario - pediatricians, family and general practicioners, who most likely don't have the training, doing a tonsillectomy as a therapeutic trial for more money when the diagnosis isn't certain.

The paragraphs are about ten paragraphs before the "stupidly" comment almost at the end.

[TigersEye]

I have been a pretty harsh critic of allopathic medicine and doctors for some time but those statements are absurd. Not only absurd but rambling and incoherent. I think you’re right that it sounds like a criticism of shyster lawyers. Doctors do not have the mindset to make decisions that way. Although they certainly might after everything becomes government run.