From his press conference:
We wanted to make sure that doctors are making decisions based on evidence, based on what works. That's not how it's happening right now. Doctors are forced to make decisions based on a fee payment schedule that's out there. So they're looking... if you come in with a sore throat or your child comes in with a sore throat, has repeated sore throats, a doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself, "I'd make a lot more money if I took this kids tonsils out."
Update---Instapundit: "...a truly staggering degree of medical ignorance."
2 comments:
Seems clear that neither obama nor his minders know 'what works', never having had to work themselves.
Chuck Brooks
FutureWare SCG
Yeah, Obama seems to have some of his logic missing.
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-20147-Schuylkill-County-Independent-Examiner~y2009m8d14-Dont-worry--the-footcutters-wont-euthanize-you
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