What's with Obama's Obsession: Body Parts?

Townhall ^ | 8/23/09 | Kevin McCullough

[wagglebee]

President Barack Obama has taken to a unique and possibly quite macabre strategy into the August recess. In speech after speech on the need for the federalizing control of a national health care system President Obama has taken to insulting the wrong people--physicians--but beyond that he has turned them into orated illustrations of terror. I believe in doing so he is demonstrating an unusual degree of deception to which he is willing to stoop, all for the cause of saying he did "something" about health care.

Roughly one month ago President Obama stated in a press conference from the White House, "So if 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 heck of 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 kids tonsils out, or whether it make just make more sense just to huh... change... huh... maybe they have allergies, maybe they have something else that would make a difference."

In one swipe he slanders thousands of the very best children's doctors and ears, nose, and throat specialists across the board. He does so with an assumption that those who practice medicine are driven by greed, and not the welfare of their patients. Yet let me ask you this, how many children's doctors do you know, or have you had for your family? In many cases across America one doctor has been the family pediatrician for two to three generations of children, and extended family, and friends of that family. In all honesty do you think such a reality would exist, if they were treating kids like clunkers that can be cashed in for parts?

Roughly two weeks ago President Obama at a townhall meeting said,

"Let's take the example of something like diabetes, one of uh... A disease that's sky-rocketing, partly because of huh... obesity. Partly because it is not treated... huh... as effectively... as it could be. Right now if we paid a family... If a family care physician, works with his or her patient, to help them lose weight, modify diet, monitors whether they are taking their medication in a timely fashion. They might get reimbursed a pittance. But if that same diabetic ends up getting their foot amputated, that's $30,000, $40,000, $50,000, immediately the surgeon is reimbursed."

There he was again with the profit motive. Only this time he was actually making the argument that the doctor would be so malevolent as to allow the diabetic in question to purposefully worsen the condition, just to cash in. I cannot repeat this strongly enough--his willingness to view doctors with such contempt and disrespect sickens me, as it should every medical practitioner in the nation. As best as I can tell there is no other industry that swears to the ideals of such a lofty vision as is found in the Hippocratic Oath. Yet in allegiance to such an oath is something lost on the man who placed his hand on a Bible and took one to uphold our liberties, freedoms, and responsibilities as outlined in the Constitution.

On this issue he was also factually wrong. And given the extreme amount of detail that goes into any Presidential proclamation, a safe wager would be to say, that he knew he was not speaking the truth. The matter of monetary reimbursement was publicly stated by the American Medical Association within 24 hours. No doctor ever receives even a $1000 for the amputation of a foot. They also do not receive it "immediately." The facts according to the AMA are that reimbursement for amputations are slow in coming and average between $500-$700.

And then there was of course his grandmother, who he implied during the campaign was a racist, whose very hip replacement surgery--fully covered by her own insurance plan--he questioned as to whether it was necessary or not, because of her pre-existing condition:

“I don’t know how much that hip replacement cost,” Obama said in the interview. “I would have paid out of pocket for that hip replacement just because she’s my grandmother.” Obama said, “You just get into some very difficult moral issues when considering whether to give my grandmother, or everybody else’s aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they’re terminally ill. That’s where I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues.”

So by his own thinking, and now admission, had it been left to a public option or single-payer Government-run plan, there is a strong possibility she would have been denied coverage for her hip replacement because of her pre-existing condition.

But wasn't that one of the massively huge problems his public option plan was supposed to prevent?

So is everyone else's granny supposed to die in misery with a crumbling, dysfunctional hip, just because they are sick with something else?

Is this the utopia that Obama's health care plan is supposed to usher in?

Does anyone besides me feel the least bit queasy that in order to convince us the President has to resort to illustrations of unnecessary amputations in order to show us the rightness of the need?

Does his confusion between $500 and $50,000 cause anyone else who is struggling with all their might to pay their bills to shudder at his clarity on the numbers in a system he wants to spend $3,000,000,000,000 on?

These are important questions, and I desperately hope that while he's living it up on Martha's Vineyard this week that he works in a little time to consider them, you know... In between the wine and cheese events...

[wagglebee]

Is this the utopia that Obama's health care plan is supposed to usher in?

It's very clear that Zero and his ilk are obsessed with death and place no value on human life.

[wagglebee]

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[Texas resident]

“no value on human life”, except their own.

[ArtyFO]

Looks like he is obsessed with defaming shyster jooooos. Methinks Rev Wright has control of the bamster.

[karnage]

The operative word is “human.”

[Berlin_Freeper]

Meanwhile Obama constantly accuses others of “trying to scare people.”

[A_Former_Democrat]

Well after all, he was talking about “wee-wees” last week

[Drill Thrawl]

It's a muslim thing. They are fascinated with cutting off body part.

[fight_truth_decay]

"he's living it up on Martha's Vineyard this week..."

President Obama heads to the island resort of Martha's Vineyard today for a family vacation likely to be interspersed with talk of -- and work on -- his drive to pass a healthcare overhaul this fall.

The president, First Lady Michelle Obama and their two daughters are set to spend the week at the well-appointed Blue Heron Farm, a private estate they are renting from a family of Republican political donors.

Also, the island retreat is not far from the Cape Cod home where Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) has been spending a lot of time this summer, raising the possibility that Obama could pay a visit to the ailing senator, a longtime advocate of healthcare reform who is battling brain cancer. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said today in an interview on ABC News' "This Week" that the absence of Kennedy, a master negotiator, has had an effect on the healthcare debate.

Today, the first family was making their way to the island a little later than planned, out of concern for the weather -- with the passage of Hurricane Bill, a tropical storm warning was lifted from the island off the south shore of Cape Cod.

The president also sent word by way of his press secretary that he hoped people would respect the privacy of his daughters.

The president was expected to play a lot of golf, but one paper reports Tiger Woods may be joining him on the course.

RE:Utopia on the Vineyard!

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[Vaquero]

Back off zer0.....you’ve wee-weed things up enough......

[Bryanw92]

>>It’s very clear that Zero and his ilk are obsessed with death and place no value on human life.

If it was just that simple. Obama and his ilk (let’s start using the right word in public, please: Marxists) place an exact value on a human life. It is a mathematically determined value that fits on a balance sheet. How much can this person produce? What are his fuel costs? What are his maintenance costs? To a Marxist like Obama, you are nothing more than a piece of equipment in a factory. When it costs more to keep you than replace you, then you are gone. There’s no remorse because you have outlived your usefulness.

He doesn’t care if you live or die. He just wants to make sure that the elite class in his classless society always profit from you. There is no room for compassion in his fascist vision for the world.

The really sad part is that he is just extending the attitude of the people that run our corporations. They say the same thing as they lay off an employee that is only a few years short of retirement or use up a man in 20 years with rotating shifts, repetitive motion injuries, and far too much mandatory overtime and then discard him when he can’t keep up with the younger workers. “It’s only business,” they say.

The big difference is that the shareholders can’t have you euthanized when the plant shuts down. But we really need to take a look at how our society has dehumanized us all to see how anyone could actually cheer for Obamacare and the pain it will bring.

[Just mythoughts]

Looks like he is obsessed with defaming shyster jooooos. Methinks Rev Wright has control of the bamster.

I am not a doctor but his religion of quoting Cain as giving him a 'moral' authority is, well out there. And his so called partnership with his god to make decisions about who lives and dies is more telling about him than about anything else he has had to say. And then he denies there is no such thing as 'death panels'.

I think he needs a mental medical review of his faculties.

[pabianice]

SOCIALISM: Destroying an ever greater number of lives while expecting an improved society

[Dick Bachert]

Gosh, yet ANOTHER page from the Nazi playbook.

State creation of a MASTER RACE. And if he can’t RAISE it (takes soo long, ya’ know), the SOB will BUILD IT from multiple parts.

Be afraid. Be VERY AFRAID!

A 10 minute video with a prophetic warning from 26 years ago that is even more urgent now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQGRf2wo2_w

[Lorianne]

Some doctors are unethical. Most are not.
Some black are criminals. Most are not.

Does Obama really want to go down the ‘stereotyping vast swaths of people based on the actions of a few’?

Apparently he does. We got a tast of that during the campaign with his ‘clinging to god and guns’ rhetoric. Not to pre-judge President Obama or anything >ahem< but I expect we are going to get more of the same.

[Paratrooper]

Outstanding Video, should be distributed as much as possible

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"These are important questions, and I desperately hope that while he's living it up on Martha's Vineyard this week that he works in a little time to consider them, you know... In between the wine and cheese events..."

Watch for a distraction event or "Wag the Dog" false flag operation when he gets back from Martha's Vineyard. Maybe even while he is there. Stephanopoulos was claiming he needs a "confidence boost" event so you can bet Rahm, Axelrod, Begala, and Carville are already working on it. Watch the memes and talking points coming out of Martha's Vineyard. Gergen and Cooper looked a little nervous and anxious in their CNN roundtable the other night, desperately trying to find a silver lining for Obamacare, rehearsing DNC talking points, debunking critics. These CFR meetings must be getting pretty interesting now. There is some panic among the Koolaid drinkers now...Their robot has been imploding and having a meltdown. They look like they are in a real panic.

It's funny to watch. Liberals in disarray. Their messiah exposed as a charlatan, quack, and emperor wearing no clothes. "Can we interest you in this amazing snake oil? Only nine trillion dollars!"

[Dick Bachert]

TYVM for the kind words.

We MUST win this one. Failure is NOT an option.

Be safe out there.

[TigersEye]

It is his typical and frequent use of straw men once again. Pure demagoguery. He is playing on a popular view of doctors as rich and greedy. He may find that that “conventional wisdom” is not as widespread as he thinks.