Posted on 07/22/2009 5:33:28 PM PDT by pabianice
Obama's news conference live.
"Multiple tests by doctors waste money. And I'm going to change that. 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."
I am not making this up. Obama is incoherent.
"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..."
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.
He is so far in over his head, it hurts to watch this.
“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.
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
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.
*******”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.
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..."
So you don't know WTF he's talking about?
Well, guess what:
He doesn't know, either.
>> < /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...
:-)
Obama: "I am the President of the United States and have the best healthcare."
Well, he always says he wants more tranparency...
“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.
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.
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.
If the doctors hadn’t done several tests on my nephew they wouldn’t have found he had cystic fibrosis.
Dr. Bombay.
“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?? :-)
>> 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.
Well said.
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