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Obama: multiple tests by doctors is "wasting money"
Fox News Channel | 7/22/09

Posted on 07/22/2009 5:33:28 PM PDT by pabianice

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To: pabianice

SEND THIS TO YOUR SENATORS AND CONGRESSPERSON. IF IT’S GOOD ENOUGH FOR OBAMA, THEN WE SHOULD GET THE SAME HEALTH CARE COVERAGE . . . WE PAY TAXES, WE GET WHAT THEY GET BECAUSE OUR TAXES PAY FOR WHAT THEY GET.

Right?

If President Obama’s Health Care Reform is so great, then I propose that everyone in the Federal Government must use his health insurance.

President Obama just said that he has “great insurance.” Well, so he does, so do you. All of you should PROVE that this health care reform is good for us by your using it, too.

If Obama’s Health Care Reform is not good enough for himself and for you and other Federal Employees, then do not vote for it for us Taxpayers. We don’t want Health Care Reform unless it’s a Federal Government Health Insurance Exactly Look Alike.

If we pay taxes for your health insurance then our increased taxes should pay for health insurance exactly like you have.


61 posted on 07/22/2009 5:48:20 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (I believe in CHOICE: Let the Fetus decide whether to be born or to spontaneously abort. FETAL CHOICE)
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To: pabianice

He is so far in over his head, it hurts to watch this.


62 posted on 07/22/2009 5:48:24 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: KarlInOhio

“To be honest about it, he is talking about redunant testing because doctor #2 can’t see the tests doctor #1 did so he orders it redone.”

If that was his specific point, then it’s disingenuous; surely most of the repeating of tests is done as defensive medicine. He’s stipulated a relatively minor class of actions, a class that no one would disagree has questionable justification, but implied that it would create huge cost savings when in all likelihood, it won’t.

So it’s a empty point.


63 posted on 07/22/2009 5:48:26 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: TiredofItalltoo

You know how many times a test will be done to diagnose something and something is missed, My God it happens all the damn time. That is why sometimes doctors order the test done again, or an even more sophisticated test to rule in or rule out something


64 posted on 07/22/2009 5:49:05 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: pabianice
What is this guy doing, auditioning as a stand-up comic for SNL? Obama has spent more money in his first hundred days than George W. Bush had spent in his first four year term, and now he's worried about wasting money?


65 posted on 07/22/2009 5:49:38 PM PDT by AdvisorB (Obamatude could be defined by Blago as something tangible, but not quite as tangible as JJJ's offer.)
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To: pabianice
If there is a blue pil and a red pill and the red pill costs twice as much, I want discriminating consumers to select the blue pill."

How about I select the one that actually works for me?

My husband can take Naprosyn but not naproxen. I can not take generic Imitrex. It does nothing for my migraine and gives me major nausea.

Mr Obama is politely invited to go have sexual relations with himself.

66 posted on 07/22/2009 5:50:20 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I miss the competent fiscal policy and flag waving patriotism of the Carter Administration)
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To: pabianice

*******”We had the bank bailout. We had the recovery package. People are saying, ‘Look. I’m cutting back.’ Let’s understand that the same must be applied to healthcare. When I came in, we had a deficit and the US had lost trillions of dollars of wealth. That all just went away. We had 700,000 jobs being lost. So we created a recovery package to stabilize the economy...”********

WTF is he talking about?
Trillions of dollars of wealth lost and it went away?? When did it go away?
700,000 jobs lost. The recovery package has fixed that??

Good Gawd Gertie this fool is insane. Either that or he thinks we are.


67 posted on 07/22/2009 5:50:29 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: 6SJ7
Now on "economic recovery"... "I saved the economy that was collapsing because of Wall Street Greed and the previous administration's mistakes..."

Q: Can you guarantee that the government will not deny coverage and, two, will you and Congress also accept the new plan?"

Obama: "The government people and Congress can chose from a number of plans, including the public plan, to ensure the best coverage for them and their families and that will end through more regulation an insurance company's desire for profits and we can also decrease paperwork and besides insurance companies are getting huge profits (which I do not like) and besides how can we ensuire better competition and to get back to your question can I promise no changes in your healthcare? No. I am going to ensure that we makethe right decisions, not doctors working on a fee schedule who will choose the more expensive option and I don't like that and want doctors to choose the most efficient treatment. That'sthe whole idea behind the Cleveland Clinic..."

68 posted on 07/22/2009 5:50:45 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: Hot Tabasco
m pullin my hair out, yelling at my TV and yelling WTF IS HE TALKING ABOUT!!!!!!!!

So you don't know WTF he's talking about?

Well, guess what:

He doesn't know, either.

69 posted on 07/22/2009 5:51:21 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: KarlInOhio

>> < /gagging at having to defend Obama>

You’re a good man with deep integrity, but you’ll hate yourself in the morning. On the way to work, small children will throw dirt clods and dog turds at you for now apparent reason. Heck, I’m disgusted with you and I don’t even know you...

:-)


70 posted on 07/22/2009 5:51:32 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: pabianice
Q:"Will you put yourself on your health plan?"

Obama: "I am the President of the United States and have the best healthcare."

71 posted on 07/22/2009 5:51:44 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: screaminsunshine
He looks like a blithering idiot.

Well, he always says he wants more tranparency...

72 posted on 07/22/2009 5:51:59 PM PDT by Nevermore (...just a typical cracker, clinging to my Constitutional rights...)
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To: AdvisorB

“Obama has spent more money in his first hundred days than George W. Bush had spent in his first four year term, and now he’s worried about wasting money?”

I think he’s worried more about the very real possibility that he’s already wasted his entire political capital.

And he can’t borrow more of that. Nobody’s lending—everyone wants to keep their political capital for themselves once they see that the guy’s a spendthrift.


73 posted on 07/22/2009 5:52:02 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: pabianice

You mean Obama believes in the 0ne test for everything? I did not know about the universal, continuous healthcare, last test you’ll ever need test.


74 posted on 07/22/2009 5:52:19 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Fili et Spiritus Sancti.)
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To: bayliving

That is a good point, some may responde better, and also some people may be allergic to one pill.

But my point is still valid. Federal government needs to be rolled all the way back to DC. Get out of education, get out of a whole slew of areas it was never intended to be in, and deal with national defense, federal courts, customs, border security and the other enumerated duties found only in the US Constitution.


75 posted on 07/22/2009 5:52:27 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: TiredofItalltoo

If the doctors hadn’t done several tests on my nephew they wouldn’t have found he had cystic fibrosis.


76 posted on 07/22/2009 5:52:27 PM PDT by Halls (This administration is a joke!!!!)
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To: Terpfen
Who exactly is Obama's doctor?

Dr. Bombay.

77 posted on 07/22/2009 5:53:21 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

“Mr Obama is politely invited to go have sexual relations with himself.”

Can this be done—can someone be politely invited to do this? Invited, that much I get.

But politely?? :-)


78 posted on 07/22/2009 5:53:25 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: NormsRevenge

>> He is so far in over his head, it hurts to watch this.

Thanks! That’s all the excuse I need to avoid looking at the train wreck! More than enough, actually.


79 posted on 07/22/2009 5:53:27 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: pissant

Well said.


80 posted on 07/22/2009 5:53:32 PM PDT by TSgt (I long for Norman Rockwell's America. Revolutio!)
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