Obama is Either Extremely Ignorant, Full of Shit, or Purposely Misleading
Read this quote from a recent news conference where President Barack Obama addresses the issue of greed and fraud in medicine. It’s quite revealing.
"Right now, doctors a lot of times are forced to make decisions based on the fee payment schedule that's out there. ... 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."
Question to the President: How many parents would take their child directly to a throat surgeon for a sore throat?
A child with a sore throat would be taken to a primary care physician, a clinic or HMO facility or in some rare instances the hospital emergency room by his or her parents. A pediatrician would examine the child, possibly initiate tests such as a routine series to identify possible infections like strep throat, and only in rare instances where certain symptoms persist then refer the child to a throat specialist. Tonsil and adenoid removal is done far less frequently now than a generation ago – perhaps another fact lost on the President.
President Obama seems to have some real hang ups about successful people making money in traditional ways as the medical profession once afforded doctors. The cold hard truth is all too often, a doctor’s decision for what course of treatment to follow is based on what Medicare or limited private insurance plans will pay for which is often not the best possible treatment but either the cheapest or the one the health care payment provider has documented as the preferred method.
Barack Obama should be ashamed of the vicious selfish stereotype he is attempting to create of our doctors. Equally alarming is his stated ignorance of how a child’s sore throat is handled and by what kind of doctor. His smug, cocky tone in addressing this issue is also quite nauseating. The guy has an answer for everything.
America does not need or deserve a health care system based on false assumptions, vicious class warfare stereotypes, and ignorance of the current system.
Read this quote from a recent news conference where President Barack Obama addresses the issue of greed and fraud in medicine. It’s quite revealing.
"Right now, doctors a lot of times are forced to make decisions based on the fee payment schedule that's out there. ... 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."
Question to the President: How many parents would take their child directly to a throat surgeon for a sore throat?
A child with a sore throat would be taken to a primary care physician, a clinic or HMO facility or in some rare instances the hospital emergency room by his or her parents. A pediatrician would examine the child, possibly initiate tests such as a routine series to identify possible infections like strep throat, and only in rare instances where certain symptoms persist then refer the child to a throat specialist. Tonsil and adenoid removal is done far less frequently now than a generation ago – perhaps another fact lost on the President.
President Obama seems to have some real hang ups about successful people making money in traditional ways as the medical profession once afforded doctors. The cold hard truth is all too often, a doctor’s decision for what course of treatment to follow is based on what Medicare or limited private insurance plans will pay for which is often not the best possible treatment but either the cheapest or the one the health care payment provider has documented as the preferred method.
Barack Obama should be ashamed of the vicious selfish stereotype he is attempting to create of our doctors. Equally alarming is his stated ignorance of how a child’s sore throat is handled and by what kind of doctor. His smug, cocky tone in addressing this issue is also quite nauseating. The guy has an answer for everything.
America does not need or deserve a health care system based on false assumptions, vicious class warfare stereotypes, and ignorance of the current system.
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