More Obama: My plan might stop doctors from cutting off your foot
posted at 10:14 pm on August 11, 2009 by Allahpundit
Townhall’s trying to turn this into a sequel to the now-legendary tonsils soundbite from his presser a few weeks ago. I don’t think it’s that bad — he’s not accusing doctors of trying to cash in on unnecessary amputations, merely emphasizing that we need to create better incentives to address medical problems early — but it is weird that this guy keeps coming back to amputated body parts when talking about this. The two goals of ObamaCare as I understand it are making sure everyone has access to treatment generally and (giggle) reducing overall federal health-care spending. I didn’t realize there was an epidemic of people losing appendages that’s driving the urgency, but there you have it.
Oh, and as for his hosannas about preventative care: You know the drill by now.
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I would sooooooo love to be in the background there, rolling my eyes with each whopper.
Patrick S on August 11, 2009 at 10:18 PM
“If we paid a family, uh uh uh”
I think you nailed it the first time.
Laura in Maryland on August 11, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Obama’s “plan” won’t stop doctors from cutting off his empty head.
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txag92 on August 11, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Really it is about all those greedy rich (white) doctors making a profit from your affliction.
Nothing more than that.
Same thing with drug companies, hospitals, equipment manufacturers, insurance companies, you know, greedy capitalists.
Skandia Recluse on August 11, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Obama is stuck on titles………..
………. He already had Senator, and apparently President of the United States just isn’t good enough.
He wants to be called………………… Doctor.
Seven Percent Solution on August 11, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Save your diabetic induced diseased foot? Sure. Watch it turn black with gangrene under Obamacare but Hey, at least you get pain pills while you die.
Guardian on August 11, 2009 at 10:21 PM
You know, Prez, if Teddy Kennedy didn’t have brain cancer, he wouldn’t have to have been treated for it. Gosh, imagine the savings.
Marcus on August 11, 2009 at 10:21 PM
A pittance,good lord,were on the streets of England,
somewhere between,1700′s and early 1900′s!!!
A pittance,Ugh!
canopfor on August 11, 2009 at 10:21 PM
This is too stupid to argue about, so I’ll just leave a link to what the Mayo Clinic has to say about Diabetes and amputations.
mizflame98 on August 11, 2009 at 10:22 PM
On next weeks episode of Obamacare: Obama will talk to the American people about how his health-care reform will save millions dollars on unnecessary anal fissure surgery.
Lance Murdock on August 11, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Invasion of the Body Part Snatchers.
Geeze. First they came for my kid’s tonsils, then they came for my father’s feet.
/pathetic.
Key West Reader on August 11, 2009 at 10:22 PM
So now he is creating or saving feet? Guess the job thing didn’t work out so well.
Geochelone on August 11, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Obama better stop smoking – he could develop – Peripheral Arterial Disease – a form of peripheral vascular disease in which there is partial or total blockage of an artery, usually one leading to a leg or arm.
12 million Americans have Peripheral Arterial Disease – smoking makes the problem worse.
50-75% of individuals who have PAD are undiagnosed
150,000 amputations are done per year due to the disease
izoneguy on August 11, 2009 at 10:23 PM
So what is his master plan? I work in the medical field, amputation is the last resort. They always try conservative measures first, it is the patients that don’t abide by those measures usually.
deidre on August 11, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Maybe Obama can use Obamacare to correct his craniorectal impaction? For Obama it seems to be a chronic condition.
As for:
AP, Obama is very sensitive to this. It strikes very very close to home. Ya see, there is this little jar on Michelle’s vanity…
coldwarrior on August 11, 2009 at 10:23 PM
What Obama needs to realize is that diabetics need to help their own cause. My wife is in the medical field, and works with many diabetic patients. Her biggest frustration is with patients that fail to take medications on a regular basis, and ignore diet and lifestyle instructions. Diabetes is a major problem, and one that the medical field has committed huge resources towards, but those resources are in vain without the cooperation of the patients.
ICBM on August 11, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Just give them a pain killer instead of cutting off a foot.
F15Mech on August 11, 2009 at 10:24 PM
First it was my tonsils, now they’re after my feet. Why, oh why, didn’t that surgeon manage my diabetes and deliver my foolproof preventative care? Greedy bastard.
How much is this amputation going to cost?
An arm and a leg, huh? Very funny, you thieving limb stealer.
Pablo on August 11, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Maybe I am just not too bright, but I still do not understand who is going to pay for this? I know that Obama says it is practically free and all that, but I just do not get it.
Terrye on August 11, 2009 at 10:24 PM
I only wish that doctors made a ton of money for each Dumbectomy they performed; this nation would rapidly empty of liberals.
Bishop on August 11, 2009 at 10:26 PM
please dear Jesus – please let BHO have more town halls.
poppieseeds on August 11, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Day by day Barry is looking more like Kerry…day by day.
Soon he will be in Dukakass territory before venturing into Carter Land. Just let him keep talkin, that’s all and keep those cameras running people.
Geochelone on August 11, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Isn’t there someone in the White House who can tell Obama that he sounds stupid when he talks about this kind of stuff?
myrenovations on August 11, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Its official, the President is an idiot. Nobody gets paid $30,000 for an amputation. Primary care doctors can try their best and patients still may not make the right choices. Obamacare is not going to change that.
Doctors already deal with “outcome measures” and “quality measures” from insurance companies and that has not proven to improve care nor outcome. Obama is pushing the liberal Nanny State position. The sheep sitting in the audience with Obama can nod and applaud but I don’t want Big Bro’ watching me.
The government can’t manage its own budget and fight its own waste, fraud and abuse. The government doesn’t need to get more involved in healthcare.
capitalistdoc on August 11, 2009 at 10:27 PM
BREAKING NEWS:
DOCTOR OBAMA SAVES FOOT; INSERTS IN MOUTH!
another clunker from obamaramafafafa.
reliapundit on August 11, 2009 at 10:27 PM
We need national nutrition programs. Let’s expand school lunch and breakfast programs to all. We can show up, grab a tray, get glop slopped on our trays, and bankrupt the country in the name of fighting obesity. That will spite those money grubbing surgeons;)
Laura in Maryland on August 11, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Ok. This guy is absolutely astounding in what he is saying. He is flat out accusing primary care physicians of not counseling them on proper diet, etc. Good Lord.
My PCP (I’m healthy but I smoke) tells me at every single visit: Quit smoking.
This a@@hole is saying that my PCP will fail to tell me to stop smoking so he can take out my lungs? WTF???
We need a new slogan: Obama… WTF???
Key West Reader on August 11, 2009 at 10:28 PM
My leg!
blatantblue on August 11, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Soylent is only available in wafer form.
Bishop on August 11, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Well, here’s what the Mayo Clinic has to say about diabetes and foot amputation:
I don’t really see much work for the doctor, here. That foot inspection is probably not more than a minute’s worth of work. Most of this involves people looking after themselves. Maybe the new, super-duper socialist medicine is going to force granny to trim her toenails (or they’ll be pulled wth rusty pliers, as a penalty)?
I think The Precedent just talked about diabetes and amputated feet because he saw it in a movie last night, or something. He didn’t seem to know anything about it, just as when he was lecturing us about economics, finance, and the dreaded “profit and earnings ratios”.
The Precedent is just such a blithering idiot, it’s amazing, really.
progressoverpeace on August 11, 2009 at 10:30 PM
hey can I just have $15K just in case I die before my feets get chopped off?
poppieseeds on August 11, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Hey now, Obama is just trying to keep from having his head amputated, I mean come on, since his brain died he does have something to be afraid of after all… :P
doriangrey on August 11, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Clearly it was an unfortunate choice of words when Obama said he was hopping mad about unnecessary amputations.
Ronnie on August 11, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Might As Welby, M.D.
This is the TV show featuring an actor who plays a doctor every week, reading scripted lines, looking concerned, and with absolutely no knowledge about the subject at hand.
beatcanvas on August 11, 2009 at 10:30 PM
The smell of desperation coming from this administration is stronger than the stench of the gangrenous flesh of a diabetes patient’s foot.
UltimateBob on August 11, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Craniorectal impaction
LMFAO!
Now, there’s a slogan for the party of Hopenchange. “We will work hard to ensure that ALL Americans have their fair share of craniorectal impaction benefits so that we can level this playing field once and for all”.
That’ll go down in the anals of history. For sure.
Key West Reader on August 11, 2009 at 10:31 PM
They may well have to cut off my foot, and by default Obama’s small intestine, if I’m ever close enough to to this bag of douchieness.
SouthernGent on August 11, 2009 at 10:31 PM
It’s all fun and games until somebody loses a
neyeleg.Laura in Maryland on August 11, 2009 at 10:32 PM
With this Mengle Administration,
tonsils aren’t safe,and now body parts are up for grabs!
Sumpin ain’t right!
Somebody needs to demand from the Body Part Czar,at the
Ministry of Well-Being and BodyPart Dismantling Department,
if there is a “PLAN”,or “BLUEPRINT” for the future,and to
what extent,a certain population group,might be used,er I
mean,what group will be under the “RetriEvil Program”!!!
—–(Snark).
canopfor on August 11, 2009 at 10:32 PM
I honestly would love to see Obama do a real townhall like the senators and congressmen/women are doing. He would cry I think.
deidre on August 11, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Maybe if we set up a mass production line with a team of volunteer doctors to travel to conventions to whack off the feet of diabetics, we could lower the overall costs.
PaCadle on August 11, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Obama isn’t a doctor, but he plays one on TV.
Wethal on August 11, 2009 at 10:32 PM
I’m waiting for the plan to cut out peoples’ tongues. I have a few candidates in mind.
Vashta.Nerada on August 11, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Laughed out loud…… this has to be the funniest two word comment of the decade.
UltimateBob on August 11, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Touche.
Vashta.Nerada on August 11, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Since this was pretty much the only way Biden was going to get his foot removed from his mouth, I guess he’s SOL.
nukemhill on August 11, 2009 at 10:33 PM
What a leader he is. First, he’s heard running his mouth about how “…stupidly…” police departments are, and in the same breath saying he didn’t really even know what he was talking about. Now, he’s saying doctors are incompetent. Somebody really needs to run with this, and run him over with it. Him, Pelosi, Reid and all the rest of his ‘our-way-or-the-highway’ cohorts.
Virus-X on August 11, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Forgive me if it has already been said, but you don’t have a let to stand on.
Laura in Maryland on August 11, 2009 at 10:33 PM
There’s an old joke about tonsils, that seems oddly appropriate, these days.
Three doctors were standing around talking about their most difficult operations (an American a Brit and a Soviet physician). The punchline is that the Soviet doctor said that tonsilectomies were the most difficult operation in the USSR. The other two looked surprised and asked why. The Ruskie replied, “Because we take the tonsils out through the anus.” When asked why they did that, he said, “Because in the Soviet Union, no one opens their mouth.”
Just a peek into the next few years, for the Bolshevik US …
progressoverpeace on August 11, 2009 at 10:33 PM
FIFY and saved $13 too.
Geochelone on August 11, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Hop and change.
ICBM on August 11, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Mr. 7%, Dr. Obama is is ready for you. Please follow me.
FontanaConservative on August 11, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Yes, so they can get that fat surgical amputation payment. Because General Practitioners do a lot of surgical amputating….
This is quite an idiot we’ve got for POTUS.
Pablo on August 11, 2009 at 10:34 PM
I say,do America a favour,
donate all the “Abby-Normal brains to science!!
After all,Abby-Normal,is code for Liberals!!Tee-Hee,ahem.
canopfor on August 11, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Pithy, but priceless. :-)
coldwarrior on August 11, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Here is what I’m not getting. How come it is above Obama’s paygrade to say when life begins but it isn’t above his paygrade to tell you you can’t get to treatment to prolong your life, hence making death come quicker? I mean if life is above his paygrade, death should be too, right?
deidre on August 11, 2009 at 10:35 PM
I guess Obama thinks the doctors will go postal on poor diabetics. Get it? Postal?…[crickets]
mizflame98 on August 11, 2009 at 10:35 PM
OMG…The History Channel is showing Jim Jones…it’s eerily similar to Obama and the “YES WE CAN” sheople! Mind control!
SouthernGent on August 11, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Open mouth, insert foot.
christene on August 11, 2009 at 10:35 PM
s/b leg – pardon my heat stroke, two hours protesting in the hot sun will do that to a broad.
Laura in Maryland on August 11, 2009 at 10:35 PM
The only known medical procedure that will correct this horrible malady is a Rectal Craniotomy.
thomasaur on August 11, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Are you kidding? Their heads are so far up inside Obama’s nether regions that the can’t see or hear what’s coming out the other end of his digestive tract.
UltimateBob on August 11, 2009 at 10:36 PM
+50
Laura in Maryland on August 11, 2009 at 10:36 PM
This is insane . . . what planet is this guy from?
rplat on August 11, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Oh dear, you said broad… Is this a Sarah Palin thread now???
doriangrey on August 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM
First big tonsil, now big foot? Man, the President is one brave dude.
:)
mjk on August 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Obama really shot himself in the foot with this remark. Do you think they’ll have to amputate?
Wethal on August 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Patient BJ Gumby: Doctor, my brain hurts!
Doctor Obama: Well then…let’s have a look at it.
Patient BJ Gumby: Nooooooo!
/montypython off
DrW on August 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Ogabe is in cahoots with Big Sneaker.
Bishop on August 11, 2009 at 10:38 PM
“Nice foot ya have there, Bob. Lemme’ look at it. Shame if ya might lose it. Now…. stop tawkin”.
Obama
Key West Reader on August 11, 2009 at 10:38 PM
We can save his foot, but we’re going to have to amputate the rest of the body.
progressoverpeace on August 11, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Based on this description, it could also be every one of AnninCA’s posts.
massrighty on August 11, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Obama isn’t a doctor, but he plays one on TV.
Wethal on August 11, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Wethal: He also playing POTUS,free-winging it day to day,
on one wing,but no prayer!!(Sarc)hehe:)
canopfor on August 11, 2009 at 10:39 PM
I’m beginning to think the President thinks real doctors are like TV doctors. They do EVERYTHING!!!! I’ll be sure to ask the family practise doctors I work with about the last time they amputated someone’s foot. Or took out someone’s tonsils…
mjk on August 11, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Hm
you in the hot sun
…..yes.
was there a sarc tag at the end? :D
blatantblue on August 11, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Yup, nothing from the neck up to save…
doriangrey on August 11, 2009 at 10:39 PM
OK, that one gets the prize for the funniest three word comment.
UltimateBob on August 11, 2009 at 10:39 PM
You know, if Obama were smart and really wanted to improve the system, he would push changes in the current system to allow for competition with pay for fee services. Other means of payment have flaws as well but in competition the flaws of each system should be reduced.
aikidoka on August 11, 2009 at 10:39 PM
I simply cannot wait for HOUSE to opine this fall on Dr. Obama’s health care plans. What with Kumar going to work for The One’s WH staff as a PR flack, these episodes will be dripping with rich irony and sardonic flair.
DrW on August 11, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Self-identified as a broad?
I like you even more now, than I did before!
massrighty on August 11, 2009 at 10:40 PM
But I’m just here to read the meter………..!
……….. Of course you are, now don’t fuse, or our union nurses will be forced to restrain you.
Seven Percent Solution on August 11, 2009 at 10:41 PM
“If you enact my plan, there will be no need for sneakers”.
/Ogabe
Key West Reader on August 11, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Not at all. Your comment instantly struck me as hilarious and I really did laugh out loud!
UltimateBob on August 11, 2009 at 10:41 PM
I would love to give Obama a laptop with the game ‘simcity’ loaded. What kind of atrocious trash would this prolonged adolescent produce?
daesleeper on August 11, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Oh dear, you said broad… Is this a Sarah Palin thread now???
doriangrey on August 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM
doriangrey: Besmircher of SarahCuda!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!BLASPHEMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I’m kidding Dori,hehe):)
canopfor on August 11, 2009 at 10:41 PM
fuse = fuss
Seven Percent Solution on August 11, 2009 at 10:41 PM
I’d feel much better with just the foot as Precedent.
progressoverpeace on August 11, 2009 at 10:42 PM
You know what would stop bills from being so high? I read a chart at work a few months ago. A lady took her kid into the doctor because she was concerned about the bumps on the kid’s tongue. Seriously. The ones we all have. The doctor actually had to tell the woman that those were normal bumps and everyone had them….
I was sitting in my cubicle laughing my a** off over that. Who the H*ll takes their kid in for that???
mjk on August 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM
You left out the best part of that line from “A Clockwork Orange.
massrighty on August 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Actually, I’m beginning to think his plan makes sense…
…for 1863. Perhaps the South could have won if only Stonewall Jackson had been able to be under ObamaCare…as it was…
I have to ask–has he been watching the opening scene of Dances with Wolves too often?
Now, I don’t know about amputating feet, but if he can find a foolproof way to keep me from ever inserting my foot in my mouth, we can start talking turkey…
Horatius on August 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Well, maybe he’s right. Maybe it’s allergies. Every one going in for an amputation should first be treated for some allergies.
bloggless on August 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM
“We regret to inform you that we removed the wrong foot, and delivered it to Des Moines. We are re-routing the foot, and you should be receiving said foot by registered mail, within a week to ten days. Please bring this document to your local post office to pick up the foot, or sign below to authorize your postal carrier to leave it at your door.”
Vashta.Nerada on August 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Oh no no no, you got it wrong… The new sneakers come with only one sneaker, but cost as much as a pair used to… Talk about doubling your profit… ;O
doriangrey on August 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Someone is going to have to cut off Chris Matthews leg STAT!
Upstater85 on August 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Laura, and all others. Please, be careful. I had a death case today from heat stroke. Devastating.
No, I’m not ObamaDoc.
Please, just be careful and stay hydrated. And, keep up the great work!
Key West Reader on August 11, 2009 at 10:44 PM
But what if I don’t like my foot? It betrayed me once and I never paid it back.
Justice! Mr President, you are taking justice from me.
Saw it earlier today, the 2010 campaign ads are writing themselves. We are going to have to pay royalties to the Dem’s. Dang, still digging in our pockets.
Hog Wild on August 11, 2009 at 10:44 PM
http://my.barackobama.com/OfficeVisit
txag92 on August 11, 2009 at 10:19 PM
txag92: I think the ‘Drop In`part on Obama website
should have some people concerned!!:)
canopfor on August 11, 2009 at 10:45 PM
She was just lucky. I would have amputated that tongue and charged $67,000. Hey, she asked for it.
progressoverpeace on August 11, 2009 at 10:45 PM
This guy is a real Dr. Mengele in training. First there’s tonsilectomies, now amputations. What’s next, castrations and other forms of neutering?
I would rather be treated by a curandero than this fool.
EMD on August 11, 2009 at 10:45 PM
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