Hopenosis doesn’t work as well on the factually educated!
What a stupid blurb out of WSJ. There was noting remotely conciliatory about this speech. It was a threat against the docs, and not even veiled.
There’s no hope and change with Dems. Never was, never is. The American Trial Lawyers Association has its jaws firmly implanted in the buttocks of their political hacks, including Obama.
“...cheering AMA members...”
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In which it is shown that many doctors are high-IQ, one-dimensional, clueless eggheads unable to clearly see the sworn and obvious enemy in their midst.
Bend over and say “aaah,” so the government can give it to you from both ends at once.
From the article: “...a token policy to keep the health-care industry at the bargaining table.”
Look at Obama’s career, short as it is, and this is what you see. He finds that people and groups can be co-opted with mere words, and then betrayed at the last moment with nary a word.
The industries involved are being temped with illusions, and they expect good which will not be returned.
CBO has already weighed in on this:
Tort adds approximately 19% to the cost of every single thing we buy. Everything.
In a field like medicine, that number, as a percent, has to be stratospheric. $100M is a piker’s figure.
Consider that an OB has to pay $90K for malpractice insurance BEFORE they can pick up a scalpel in WA state.
Result: Exodus. The ones courageous enough to continue practicing are literally working themselves to death.
A liberal Dem POTUS saying that he will in some way limit liability lawyers?
(pausing for laughter to die down).
Here’s a statistic: only 35% of American Doctors are members of the AMA - American Medical Association.
Oh, brother. What a rube. That was a throwaway line.
Or, more accurately, a setup line. Obama didn't mean a damned word of it.
Please excuse my foul language. I should've said, "the Pres--ent".