Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama tries demonizing doctors — yes, doctors — as greedy and typically performing unnecessary medical procedures in order to make more money.
If The Christos wants to see greedy, He need look no further than one of His largest benefactors and the real obstacle to real health care reform — trial lawyers. But that’s a whole different post unto itself.
The Wall Street Journal takes The Messiah to task and says that if the desire to turn doctors into villains is part of The Anointed One’s plans, ObamaCare will be even worse than we’re currently imagining it to be.
Those greedy doctors. “You come in and you’ve got a bad sore throat, or your child has a bad sore throat or has repeated sore throats,” President Obama explained at Wednesday’s press conference. “The doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself, ‘You know what? I make a lot more money if I take this kid’s tonsils out.’”
If that’s what he really thinks is wrong with U.S. health care—and with the medical profession—then ObamaCare is going to be even worse than we thought. The point Mr. Obama oversimplified is that the way the U.S. pays for medical services can encourage some physicians to prescribe unnecessary tests or treatments, especially in Medicare. But his implication is that doctors aren’t acting in the best interests of their patients in order, basically, to rob them.
Many unnecessary tests and procedures are ordered and conducted for one reason — to safeguard the health care practitioner against frivolous lawsuits filed by the real greedy, avaricious bastards — trial lawyers — down the line.
That, plus the gradual transfer of actual payment to third parties, has driven up the cost of health care. And making the government the single payer isn’t going to drive down those costs.
But it will reduce the quality and amount of service. That’s guaranteed.
