Obama: Greedy doctors are coming after your tonsils or something
posted at 10:06 pm on July 22, 2009 by Allahpundit
Gee, I’m really sorry I decided to skip this for “Ghost Hunters.” Watching The One explain how the medical industry has designs on your body parts would have been much better in hindsight. To think: The day is coming when instead of forcing you to take unnecessary tests, doctors will force you not to take necessary ones because they no longer have the resources to process them. Take that, profit motive.
This is what happens when you take health advice from a guy with a lifelong smoking habit. Exit question: Any truth to the rumor that Obama’s going to impose a new surtax on fatties? “But let me be clear: The time has come to put away the fudge.”
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We need more like you to yell, loudly.
Show Democrats for the anti-science people they truly are.
Esthier on July 22, 2009 at 10:24 PM
AP…nice cheap shot at smokers, thanks.
It matters not to me if Obama smokes or not, what matters is his strident intent on nationalizing health care.
Gothguy on July 22, 2009 at 10:24 PM
The future under Obama.
From Logan’s Run
Sound familiar?
DerKrieger on July 22, 2009 at 10:25 PM
He pointed out that he was the president at least twice tonight.
farright on July 22, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Can I use that on a bumper sticker??
Sporty1946 on July 22, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Huh?
How the hell did this guy get elected?
Saltysam on July 22, 2009 at 10:25 PM
You should match this clip up with the one you posted recently, where, asked a question about an old lady who had . . . a heart problem, I think, he said, take some painkillers — with this one —
GTR640 on July 22, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Reduce the administrative costs with 31 new government agencies? I don’t think so. BTW, did anyone tell O about the CBO report that says the cost of health care won’t go down but the quality will?
I’m SOOO glad I didn’t have to watch this guy tonight. You get there will be changes and NO your doctor won’t get to make decisions without government dictates. Don’t you believe it. Anyone that’s been through Military, Medicare or Veterans health care knows all about government health rules books and it has NOTHING to do with what’s best for the patient and everything to do with cost.
katablog.com on July 22, 2009 at 10:25 PM
?ACM or AVM?
IrishEi on July 22, 2009 at 10:20 PM
ACM = Arnold Chiari Malformation
txag92 on July 22, 2009 at 10:25 PM
What the hell did this fool accomplish tonite???
elduende on July 22, 2009 at 10:26 PM
The “profit motive” that BHO demonizes is what brings us the best health care in the world:
1) Many of the best health practitioners in the world come to the US to make a lot of money. When we become socialized, they’ll stay in Taiwan and India and France. And some of our best will retire or emigrate or find other professions.
2) US drug companies and medical device makers lead the world in innovation by a country mile. Why? Because the ones who invent better treatments make a lot of money. When we become socialized, only politically fashionable maladies like AIDS and breast cancer will get research funding, and even then the emphasis will be to find cheaper ways of treating the sick, not better.
jgapinoy on July 22, 2009 at 10:26 PM
ZING!!!!
BPD on July 22, 2009 at 10:26 PM
“Six months into his term and he’s peaked. It’s all downhill from here on in.
southsideironworks on July 22, 2009 at 10:07 PM
He will never get lower than George Bush. You can mark that on the wall.
equality on July 22, 2009 at 10:10 PM”
Well how could he after you add in the 17 minority points?
LtE126 on July 22, 2009 at 10:26 PM
That is the lamest apologetic for wage and price controls. Barry must think we’re all complete dunderheads.
evergreen on July 22, 2009 at 10:26 PM
You are wrong. Dem’s love science. All science that can kill unborn babies is a good thing.
Rightwingguy on July 22, 2009 at 10:26 PM
levin on hannity
IrishEi on July 22, 2009 at 10:26 PM
I’m sorry – did he just say that having a competitor that doesn’t need to worry about profit will encourage private business?! give one RL example of that.
Phoenician on July 22, 2009 at 10:26 PM
My health insurance premium costs less than my federal tax liability. On top of that my insurance company is much more efficient than the federal government.
boomer on July 22, 2009 at 10:27 PM
And, which part of socialism/communism do you most enjoy.
Johan Klaus on July 22, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Where are the trolls?
HornetSting on July 22, 2009 at 10:27 PM
News Flash there, Copernicus. Bush isn’t president. Seek help.
Patrick S on July 22, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Badee, badee, badee…that’s all folks!
javamartini on July 22, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Bad case of Trollitis. I prescribe a nice knuckle sandwich.
EyeSurgeon on July 22, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Will gays be targeted with higher premiums like smokers will?
You know, cigarettes and STD’s can both be classified as poor lifestyle choices. Just sayin’.
jimmy2shoes on July 22, 2009 at 10:27 PM
“You get” should have been “you bet”. I’m so mad I can’t type but then I inherited that from O.
katablog.com on July 22, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Honestly if a doctor was dumb enough to remove my tonsils because of allergies….I’d wonder how the hell I got to Europe.
Rightwingguy on July 22, 2009 at 10:27 PM
What a friggin’ idiot!
He just made an enemy of every doctor in the United States with that comment. Wait for it. Bambi’s getting slammed big time tomorrow and then we’ll get treated to incoherent babbling from Gibbs as he tries to walk back from the mess his boss made.
PackerBronco on July 22, 2009 at 10:27 PM
No, no, no. “Pack the fudge” would be questionable
Rightwingguy on July 22, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Hopefully his waterloo.
farright on July 22, 2009 at 10:28 PM
He must have worked really hard at maintaining that kind of abject ignorance about how health care is delivered and paid for in this country, and how physicians, by and large, actually practice medicine.
Insomniac on July 22, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Levin = genius. More reliable than starry-eyed Krauthammer these days who just CAN NOT get over Obama’s “style”.
Marcus on July 22, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Isn’t this the guy who doesn’t mind if they come after your entire body — as long as you aren’t born yet?
unclesmrgol on July 22, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Then I WANT to be the ONE making that decision to chastise my doctor, not some government brown shirt.
HornetSting on July 22, 2009 at 10:29 PM
ugh! how many times do i have to explain this?
1)kookeneisha and all her friends ( ya know, the ones who couldn’t tell you who ran congress last november, etc.) thought they were all gonna get free gas cards.
2) suzy soccer mom and of her friends felt bad about slavery.
period. end of story. cut to america rotting slowly rotting away right before your eyes.
Ghoul aid on July 22, 2009 at 10:29 PM
insurance companies, doctors, profit motive needs to be reduced, is it okay to call the guy a radical leftist who is a Manchurian Candidate compared to the show he put on during the campaign.
rob verdi on July 22, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Levin needs to become more mainstream…. damn he is good.
BPD on July 22, 2009 at 10:29 PM
You are a racist for opposing Dar Kommissar. /sarc
Sporty1946 on July 22, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Ogabe is worried, and you can mark that on a wall.
Bishop on July 22, 2009 at 10:29 PM
battleoflepanto1571 on July 22, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Thanks Allah!
catlady on July 22, 2009 at 10:29 PM
No denial for pre-existing conditions?
Hey Barry, can you also get an insurance company to cover my car damage AFTER the accident?
drjohn on July 22, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Maybe, although Krauthammer did whack Barry pretty good on his “this isn’t about me” lie about the health care reform bill.
Insomniac on July 22, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Yep stem cells are free game until your born. And then NO PART OF YOUR BODY MUST BE TOUCHED. So sayeth the One. Except if you are pregnent, the nyou can abort it, no problem.
Rightwingguy on July 22, 2009 at 10:30 PM
I think the federal government should quit passing on all it’s costs to the consumers (taxpayers).
boomer on July 22, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Levin needs to become more mainstream…. damn he is good.
BPD on July 22, 2009 at 10:29 PM
I download his show (iTunes) every night. He is fantastic.
txag92 on July 22, 2009 at 10:30 PM
I think the Hillary has sung on this administration.
Epic Failure!
HornetSting on July 22, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Good thing the AMA is trying to play nice with Obama, I wonder if they have any comment on this now?
http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/news/Commentary_510/AMA_Affirms_Support_for_Health_Reform.shtml
rob verdi on July 22, 2009 at 10:30 PM
They really know they’ve got nothin’ now.
misslizzi on July 22, 2009 at 10:30 PM
It looks like it because even some big lefties like Susan Estrich and Howard Fineman have trashed him tonite.
elduende on July 22, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Would someone tell me when was the last time a pediatrician performed a tonsillectomy? You take your kid to the pedia for a sore throat. If the kid has repeated bouts of tonsillitis, removal might be called for, but it’s done by a surgeon not the pediatrician. How does the pediatrician make money from the insurance company on this? Has the President never taken his girls to their pediatrician for strep? For him not to know what any other parent knows shows he’s either ben incredibly lucky with his girls, or he’s not been involved as a dad. Or he lied tonight.
xkaydet65 on July 22, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Pissed off a few doctors I’d bet.
thomasaur on July 22, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Where are the trolls?
HornetSting on July 22, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Anninca is in line at Kaiser.
txag92 on July 22, 2009 at 10:31 PM
So doctors are taking out tonsils when kids really only have allergies?
F**K YOU OBAMA.
This is what you get when you elect a communisty organizer who’s never worked a frickin’ honest job in his life.
drjohn on July 22, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Obama and his regime are radical Marxists and must be challenged and confronted at every turn. Sit back passively and succumb to socialist propaganda and you’ll lose your country.
rplat on July 22, 2009 at 10:31 PM
No problem from me.
The hard thing is just keeping Obama’s Axis down to three:
Car companies
Banks
Investors
Energy companies
Religious folk
“bitter clingers”
Cambridge police
cozmo on July 22, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Just one question for this man: How in the heck does eliminating profit motives create incentives?
NotCoach on July 22, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Did you see Levin’s closing comments, Allah? THERE IS THE QUOTE OF THE DAY! American’s don’t think their healthcare “stinks” and we need rescue from DC!
Marcus on July 22, 2009 at 10:31 PM
The AMA is not going to stand silent when the president called their members crooks on national television. They’re going to tear him a new one.
Nice job dumb-ass.
PackerBronco on July 22, 2009 at 10:32 PM
AZCoyote on July 22, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Maybe instead of a heart transplant, you could take some friggin aspirin, you know? Stop jamming the rest of us up, doc!!
What, you need to make a profit so you can defend yourself against those evil tort lawyers. Don’t worry about them; I’ll regulate those biotches like there’s no tomorrow!! You just get back to your low cost advice: if they’re not bleeding from their ears, its aspirin and crutches!
GTR640 on July 22, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Fortunately for the next generation, science is not on their side.
Esthier on July 22, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Put away the fudge? That sounds gay.
SouthernGent on July 22, 2009 at 10:14 PM
I’d like to tell him where to pack that fudge!
catlady on July 22, 2009 at 10:32 PM
He doesn’t even know where he met his wife. Anything regarding the kids would be way too taxing on his brain.
sherry on July 22, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Considering Barry’s rather nasty insinuations about how doctors practice medicine, I do wonder how the AMA is going to face its constituents about the issue.
Insomniac on July 22, 2009 at 10:33 PM
For the bazillionth time, he again told the nation that “the stars are aligned..” for his healthcare boondoggle.
Let’s see, the last time the stars were aligned, it was for banking industry snafu. Then they aligned again for the demolition of the auto industry, then they aligned yet again for the stimulus bill that stimulated nothing, then again for cap and tax, and now they are once again lined up for B.O.-care.
Proof yet again why no one should take astrology seriously.
pilamaye on July 22, 2009 at 10:33 PM
OT, but Levin is on Hannity’s Show right now, calmly skewering Obamacare with a well honed Bayonet.
paragon27x on July 22, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Pissed off a few doctors I’d bet.
thomasaur on July 22, 2009 at 10:31 PM
There have been several doctors call into Mark Levin’s show that said they resigned their AMA membership. I hope there will be more after Bozo’s performance tonight.
txag92 on July 22, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Latest from AP FACT CHECK: Obama’s health care claims adrift? FACT CHECK: “Obama’s health care principles somewhat at odds with the details in front of him ”
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/FACT-CHECK-Obamas-health-care-apf-2748340478.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=
jonkk on July 22, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Yeah that’s coming back to haunt him. Big. Time
.
elduende on July 22, 2009 at 10:33 PM
I’d like to tell him where to pack that fudge!
catlady on July 22, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Paging Barney Frank. Barney to the oval office, STAT.
txag92 on July 22, 2009 at 10:33 PM
This is the guy who claims to have saved the economy, but refuses to show the current budget numbers. I wouldn’t buy a used gnat from him, much less turn over my family’s lives.
Vashta.Nerada on July 22, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Been flipping back and forth to msnbc
am I crazy or do I detect some legitimate criticism there?
waterlooooooooooooo??????
BPD on July 22, 2009 at 10:34 PM
was it at the zoo? =)
Ghoul aid on July 22, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Doctor Obama
GTR640 on July 22, 2009 at 10:35 PM
WATERLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HornetSting on July 22, 2009 at 10:35 PM
My thoughts, exactly.
Saltysam on July 22, 2009 at 10:35 PM
How’s this:
Bush’s Enemies – Axis of Evil
N.Korea, Iran, Irag
Obambi’s Enemies
Every American Who Disagrees
Sporty1946 on July 22, 2009 at 10:35 PM
What a liar.
drjohn on July 22, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Wow. And here I thought tonsillectomies have been on the decline for many years now. This man thinks we’re are all dumber than bricks.
NotCoach on July 22, 2009 at 10:36 PM
It is going to be hard for the State Run Media to tote this water for him with the hole in the bucket the size of your fist. Someone will sound retreat for Team Obama very soon.
Dire Straits on July 22, 2009 at 10:36 PM
The polls say some dunderheads are seeing the light.
Patrick S on July 22, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Beckel is a toad.
thomasaur on July 22, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Beckel is a toad.
thomasaur on July 22, 2009 at 10:36 PM
He makes me sick.
txag92 on July 22, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Turn on Hannity, Bob Beckel is loving the Barry presser.
Knucklehead on July 22, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Before the presser, I watched the movie, “The Vanishing Point”. I hope this bill vanishes.
ICBM on July 22, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Sounds like Obama once again made a royal jackass out of himself once again. What a clown act this guy is.
Anyone who voted for this tool is a complete idiot and should feel morbidly ashamed of themselves tonight.
NoDonkey on July 22, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Or maybe this:
Obambi’s Enemies – Axis of Evil
Constitution, Dec. of Indep., Rule of Law
Sporty1946 on July 22, 2009 at 10:38 PM
I hope someday his doctor tells him “I don’t think that chest pain is really an MI. I could test you but, that would be uneccessary at this point. Here take these two aspirin and call me in the morning, if you’re still alive.”
boomer on July 22, 2009 at 10:38 PM
jonkk
good catch.
rob verdi on July 22, 2009 at 10:38 PM
This Pinnochio has no idea how the market works. You cannot insure pre-existing conditions without costs going up for everyone in that given pool or the insurance company going bust!
Pinnochio slamming Insurance Company profits now. That should be good for a $200.00 drop in the market tomorrow. Sell Short!
No-one supposed to make a profit anymore? This is dangerous stuff here. Where does Pinnochio suppopse the jobs come from? I’m damn glad I’m mostly out of the market and don’t have a 401 K. Cash is king!
dhunter on July 22, 2009 at 10:38 PM
My God, was the whole press conference like that video?
Terrye on July 22, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Ew, Niccole Wallace…the Palin back-stabber herself!
SouthernGent on July 22, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Actually, 25% of the voters in 2008 were minorities.
The Dems have been importing voters for 25 years, while the GOP cowered.
Add to the minorities the single moms, the Marxists, the gays, the feminists, the moochers and you have a permanent majority.
Costa Rica anyone? Belize? New Zealand?
Secession? Civil war?
guntotinglibertarian on July 22, 2009 at 10:38 PM
For those of you, Allah, who openly wonder why someone like me, Jaibones, would repeatedly suggest that Obama is a fu*king idiot, despite the hosannas that rain down upon him from all quarters, I say this:
Nothing that I have ever heard from George W. Bush – nothing; not strategery; nothing – makes less sense than what this bonehead just spewed in that video. I know it’s hard to be the pimp he wants to be when TOTUS isn’t available, but come on. Is he so blindly egocentric that he thinks he can simply bluff a question on healthcare that he knows nothing about?
We have the class clown as President.
Jaibones on July 22, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Red Pill, Blue Pill
one, two, three
Which chinese drug shall it be?
My very best Prez says to pick the very best one,
and you are it!
bloggless on July 22, 2009 at 10:39 PM
You’ll pry my Twinkies from my cold, dead, sausage-like fingers.
sulla on July 22, 2009 at 10:39 PM
He’s so stupid when he’s of prompter. Did you see him gulp when he realized he let it slip?
Comedy gold.
Saltysam on July 22, 2009 at 10:39 PM
You do realize Krauthammer is being sarcastic in a sly manner, right?
Krauthammer is laughing at this guy louder than most.
Thunderstorm129 on July 22, 2009 at 10:39 PM
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