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Obama: multiple tests by doctors is "wasting money"
Fox News Channel | 7/22/09

Posted on 07/22/2009 5:33:28 PM PDT by pabianice

Obama's news conference live.

"Multiple tests by doctors waste money. And I'm going to change that. If there is a blue pil and a red pill and the red pill costs twice as much, I want discriminating consumers to select the blue pill."

I am not making this up. Obama is incoherent.

"We had the bank bailout. We had the recovery package. People are saying, 'Look. I'm cutting back.' Let's understand that the same must be applied to healthcare. When I came in, we had a deficit and the US had lost trillions of dollars of wealth. That all just went away. We had 700,000 jobs being lost. So we created a recovery package to stabilize the economy..."


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1 posted on 07/22/2009 5:33:28 PM PDT by pabianice
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"Multiple tests by doctors waste money. And I'm going to change that. If there is a blue pil and a red pill and the red pill costs twice as much, I want discriminating consumers to select the blue pill."

Who exactly is Obama's doctor? Lawrence Fishburne?
2 posted on 07/22/2009 5:34:28 PM PDT by Terpfen (FR is being Alinskied. Remember, you only take flak when you're over the target.)
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What an ignorant marxist bitch he is.


3 posted on 07/22/2009 5:34:42 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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"I am very worried about federal spending. We are doing better but we have to even more. I cut the F-22 program to save money. We need to do more to close the %7.3 Trillion gap that we inherited (from the evil Bush-Cheney). That's why it's so important to do so now."

Huh?

4 posted on 07/22/2009 5:36:02 PM PDT by pabianice
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Obama: multiple tests by doctors is "wasting money"

So the answer here, at least in part, is Tort Reform and Loser Pays.

5 posted on 07/22/2009 5:36:17 PM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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That’s what he said and I had to leave the room. My husband is watching and I couldn’t take it, so it’s back to FR for me.


6 posted on 07/22/2009 5:36:20 PM PDT by Ditter
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The Narcissist in Chief now has a medical degree.

In effect he’s saying, “The Government will provide you with your first, second and final medical opinion on your treatment.”


7 posted on 07/22/2009 5:36:31 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To be honest about it, he is talking about redunant testing because doctor #2 can't see the tests doctor #1 did so he orders it redone. I don't know how often that is actually done, especially for big things like MRIs. Maybe a blood test will be redone because $20 to do it again is easier than pissing around for an hour to tranfer the results.
8 posted on 07/22/2009 5:36:31 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (As a child Obama was rejected from Little League because of lack of a birth certificate.)
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Short, sweet open ended questions - give him the rope to hang himself with... The guy will take an open-ended question and just bury it in circuitous verbiage. He has no idea that he comes across as a loquacious, arrogant politician, the antithesis of a decisive leader.
9 posted on 07/22/2009 5:36:41 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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I’m sure he never watches “House” - they run a test multiple times on the same episode! The SAME doctors!! Doctors make mistakes every single day.


10 posted on 07/22/2009 5:36:51 PM PDT by TiredofItalltoo (tiredofitalltoo)
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** OBAMA: SAVING LIVES IS A WASTE OF MONEY **


11 posted on 07/22/2009 5:36:54 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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OMG. He really said this?

Dumb as a post. Inarticulate as a stump. Ambitious as Hitler.


12 posted on 07/22/2009 5:36:57 PM PDT by livius
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redunant -> redundant
13 posted on 07/22/2009 5:37:25 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (As a child Obama was rejected from Little League because of lack of a birth certificate.)
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Does that mean that getting a second opinion is also wasting money?

-PJ

14 posted on 07/22/2009 5:37:36 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (This just in... Voting Republican is a Terrorist act!)
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Will one reporter ask him why, when asked if Americans would lose their private insurance under the House plan, Obama said he wasn’t familiar with it. Will one real reporter ask that question?


15 posted on 07/22/2009 5:38:01 PM PDT by Krankor ("Quit talking about the eight men, or there's gonna be nine.")
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

He looks like a blithering idiot.


16 posted on 07/22/2009 5:38:15 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: pabianice

>Obama’s news conference live.
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>”Multiple tests by doctors waste money. And I’m going to change that.”

President Obama elaborated, “I’m going to change that by eliminating all the expensive procedures and equipment.. everyone’s medical tests will be directed to Joe Biden and a magic 8-ball instead.”

>”If there is a blue pil and a red pill and the red pill costs twice as much, I want discriminating consumers to select the blue pill.”

Obama continued, “because it is a well known fact that ALL pills do the same thing, regardless of color, just like Presidents.”


17 posted on 07/22/2009 5:38:21 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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Huh?

I’d rather have too many tests than not enough. And as has been said on here before, if they would actually pass tort reform they wouldn’t need to worry about the number of tests.

But with the President and VP both lousy lawyers, there is even less of a chance with tort reform now than under the Republicans.


18 posted on 07/22/2009 5:38:21 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (ABC-AP-MSNBC-All Obama, All the time.)
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Why have we wasted so much time going to doctors?

All we ever needed was a community organizer to teach us how to take care of ourselves.


19 posted on 07/22/2009 5:38:28 PM PDT by comebacknewt
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“Republicans passed a bill to contain costs but it had no power. So, let’s ask Congress to vote on healthcare as a package. This would be empowering. Medicare benefits will not be changed; they’ll be delivered in a better way (”Soylent Green is People!”) The pharma industry have contributed $80B to help seniors to fill the do-nut hole in their coverage (?) so that’s a change to decrease out of pocket savings for seniors.”


20 posted on 07/22/2009 5:38:36 PM PDT by pabianice
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