Whoops: Did Obama forget who the “bad guys” are in the health care debate?
. . . Obama has repeatedly said he wants doctors and patients making their decisions together – and he has repeatedly told Americans that his health care plan will let that happen. He has been insistent on this point because he doesn’t want Americans to realize that what he actually wants is some sort of “health advisory board” full of beurocrats that decide who gets what treatment, when they get it, and what kind of treatments are acceptable.
But the President might have accidently revealed his hand last night when he started talking about doctors trying to make money. He is clearly saying that he does not want doctors making decisions about patient care because they are only interested in profit. If Obama believes that doctors can’t be trusted to make good decisions about what a patient really needs, then why should we believe him when he says he wants to make sure that it is doctors who make those decisions?
Of course, the truth is that Obama’s speeches about letting doctors and patients decide what’s best is just another one of his noble myths. Sure, he wants them to make their decisions together – as long as they are deciding between the treatment options that the federal government has said they can choose from.
“Here in Soviet Russia, you can buy any color car you want, just as long as it’s black!”
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