Coming on the heels of Obama suggesting that doctors cut off people's feet because it makes them more money than a prescription, an article by the Huffington Post "News Team" suggests that doctors who warn patients about the perils of socialized medicine may physically hurt them if they don't agree.
Eric Stein went to see his doctor in Los Angeles, Calif., for a routine ear-cleaning procedure last fall. He was alarmed to discover that his doctor was out of town, leaving him in the hands of the doctor's assistant, who, instead of using the usual vacuum device, was brandishing some kind of poker with "a protruding piece of metal like a wire" on one end...He mentioned that he didn't have insurance, and he made a negative remark about insurance companies. The assistant reacted strongly. "She said, 'Oh, well, you're lucky you don't live in Canada or Britain," and she mentioned the allegedly long wait times for treatment in those countries. Stein was taken aback but decided to keep his mouth shut. "I didn't want to have an argument with that needle next to my brain," he said.
Better get used to doctor's assistants, that may be your primary care provider under ObamaCabre. One of the tenets of the article was that doctors are giving out misleading information, citing an article from the liberal flagship St. Petersburg Times.
Jim Heltsley, a 67-year-old retiree in Florida, said his chiropractor dumped him after he questioned an anti-reform flier in the waiting room. "I just ducked into his office and I set it down on his desk. I said, 'Dr. Mike, who put this out?' And he says, 'It's all true.' I said, 'No, those are myths, they've been debunked," said Heltsley. Most of the items in the e-mail Moss was distributing have been deemed incorrect by reputable news organizations, Heltsley said.
Reputable news organizations? You mean like The St. Petersburg Times who just lost a $10 million dollar lawsuit for perpetuating libelous statements about a doctor? And what kind of "myths" are the doctors pushing? One is that healthcare will be rationed. Will Huffington Post and The St. Pete Times go on record guarenteeing that healthcare will never be rationed? The average person is lucky right now to get 10 whole minutes with a real doctor. Maybe The St. Pete Times can explain how you can add 50 million people to the current system without cutting a single service people have now.
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Good grief. Has the Huffpo
September 2, 2009 - 17:25 ET by celatorGood grief. Has the Huffpo contracted with every lunatic in America to write articles for them?
No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.
Well, you have to wonder
September 2, 2009 - 17:32 ET by StarAZBetween this stupid article and that one about how Mary Jo Kopechne might think "it was worth it," you have to wonder if they are running low on people who pretend they can write.
Evidently cel...proofs in
September 2, 2009 - 17:32 ET by bigtimerEvidently cel...proofs in the pudding.
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Talk About Projection...
September 2, 2009 - 23:42 ET by Intellectual HonestyDoes anyone doubt that it would be leftist doctors that would "slip up" if they knew a patient was against Obama in general, let alone a patient that was against Obamacare?
How many times have we read quotes from nutroots blogs that torture is wrong and anyone that tortures a prisoner of war by inflicting physical injury should die? Get it? - cause injury not resulting in death - get death. And these people are generally against capital punishment...except when it's justified at a "street" level.
These are the same people who hate people that don't support hate crime laws.
For rill?
September 2, 2009 - 17:30 ET by StarAZThis is so stupid it has to be a joke.
He's got an option
September 2, 2009 - 17:39 ET by JeffC...Hey, pal--if you don't like your doctor, you can always go find another one. You might not get that option under ObamaCare.
As for the "myths" that have been "debunked," the only thing I've seen as proof of the "myths" being "debunked" is some government or leftist flunky saying that it's not true without any facts to back them up. Come to think of it, that's also how they prove climate change.
do they have video?
September 2, 2009 - 17:52 ET by katainkentya know.. like the ones they had for planned parenthood admins awhile back....
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Why do leftist wackos
September 2, 2009 - 18:00 ET by ThisnThatWhy do leftist wackos always project their approach onto innocent conservatives? Leftists might hurt their patients -- so they assume everyone would hurt their patients.
Kinda like Bob Bechtell's (SP?) portrayal of town hall meetings. On Hannity he said "Of course these protests are organized. I know how protests work. I've organized a lot of them. Protesters don't protest unless they are organized". He has no clue how conservatives work, does he? None of the leftists do.
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TnT... I heard that from
September 2, 2009 - 18:04 ET by bigtimerTnT...
I heard that from Beckel as well...he really said it all, actually made an arse out of himself and proved exactly what the left do and accuse the repub party of doing...it would be comical if it weren't so serious...
Still is comical to me at times anyway..if we didn't laugh at times we all would be as nutty as they are.
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Won't a great number of folks quit working full time
September 2, 2009 - 18:27 ET by ekslibwhen the health care program goes into effect?
Why should they work 40 hours a week if they can work fewer hours and still get the health insurance benefit?
Why should they even do honest work, if they can chose some alternative way to make enough money to live?
Car thieves, robbers, muggers and scam artists will enjoy the wonderful sense of security that they will get from having health insurance.
Bye, bye American productivity.
So you're saying that the
September 2, 2009 - 18:39 ET by mandrakeSo you're saying that the only reason Americans work 40 hours/week is to afford health insurance?
Who goes to a doctor for a
September 2, 2009 - 20:05 ET by ckc1227Who goes to a doctor for a routine ear cleaning?
People with various
September 2, 2009 - 20:08 ET by nwahsPeople with various disabilities - blindness, arthritis, neuromuscular diseases etc.
"If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names." -Elbert Hubbard
Blind people can't clean
September 2, 2009 - 22:46 ET by ckc1227Blind people can't clean their ears? Who do they go to to wipe their butts?
And
September 2, 2009 - 21:10 ET by Mithridate OmbudWho expects the doctor to actually do it? They're going to bring out the greenest ear tech in the building. And I don't mean that environmentally.
UK plans to cut NHS
September 2, 2009 - 20:19 ET by celatorUK plans to cut NHS staff
Here's a little bit of news I just heard on UK radio a few minutes ago: because the National Health Service (NHS) is not meeting its "cost goals" (their term) this year, the government is getting ready to fire 136,000 medical staff from the system.
They didn't say what level of staff. Gotta keep those costs down. This is what's coming here with ObamaCare. Don't doubt it for a second.
Oh yeah.
No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.
Now THAT'S Kharma!
September 2, 2009 - 22:18 ET by sic721"You mean like The St. Petersburg Times who just lost a $10 million dollar lawsuit for perpetuating libelous statements about a doctor?"
From the linked article:
"The lawsuit was filed over three articles that appeared in the Times in December 2003 about Kennedy's reassignment from chief of medicine to his subspecialty of cardiology. Kennedy filed suit in Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court in 2005."
"The first article appeared Dec. 4 under the byline of staff writer Paul de la Garza. He also wrote the follow-up articles that ran Dec. 9 and 10. De la Garza died of a heart attack in 2006 at age 44."
Eye. Roe. Knee.
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Proposition 8
September 2, 2009 - 22:24 ET by TexndocRemember when Proposition 8 in California was decided and HuffPo specialized in Google maps with addresses/phone numbers of businesses and people who had contributed? There's a reason "HuffPosters" are to bring up healthcare reform with their doctors and "tell us about negative experiences."