Obama:"Drs. cut off diabetics' feet to earn fees

[healthmyths]

Obama: Doctors Choose Amputation Because Surgeons Get Paid More Than Physicians
PRESIDENT OBAMA: "Partly because it’s not treated as effectively as it could be. Right now if we paid a family ‑‑ if a family care physician works with his or her patient to help them lose weight, modify diet, monitors whether they are taking their medications in a timely fashion, they might get reimbursed a pittance. But if that same doctor ‑‑
Ends up getting their foot amputated, that’s $30,000, $40,000, $50,000. Immediately the surgeon is reimbursed."


Reality is Obama is responsible for the VA.
Over the past two weeks, whistle-blowers have confirmed that a Veterans Affairs medical center in Phoenix, Arizona allowed 40 patients to die while awaiting treatment
Arizona veterans? hospital scandal: Forty patients died awaiting treatment - World Socialist Web Site

This is one VA hospital. How many other deaths are yet to be reported.

Obama's claim about surgeons amputating for fees has been proven false.
Obama's responsibility for veterans under people Obama as an executive hired Eric K. Shinseki who for five years has been responsible for these deaths.
The buck stops at Obama!

 

[strollingbones]

sob the title scared the hell out of this diabetic...oddly enough my feet are checked at every visit and so far...no one is wanting to cut off anything

 

[sameech]

He is, or course, wrong. A physician can schedule a great many patients more than a surgeon, and the surgeon is only going to be getting partial reimbursement. Most of that $30K-$40K will be going to the hospitals (with their insane administrative overhead), hospitalists, and the like. Medicine will still get most of that money over surgery.

 

[healthmyths]

sob the title scared the hell out of this diabetic...oddly enough my feet are checked at every visit and so far...no one is wanting to cut off anything

I am diabetic also and obviously more informed about my doctor then Obama who used the SAME scare tactic to jam ACA down our throats.
Now I'm concerned BECAUSE of ACA my diabetic care is threatened by ACA new requirements regarding Diabetes and believe me
it will become worse then better.
Again the point was to show how totally inept Obama has been i.e. VA deaths under his watch and how idiotic voters were who had no idea of his incompetency as the Chief Executive of the USA is really now coming out!

 

[strollingbones]

new requirements regarding diabetes? what new requirements?

 

[strollingbones]

tell me a president that the va did not suffer under?

 

[Katzndogz]

This is an indication of how abysmally ignorant obama is, and how much he depends on public ignorance.

Do you think that a surgeon would deliberately not treat diabetes just to get a fee for performing the surgery? Think about it.

What surgeons treat diabetes? Which treating doctors perform amputations? My mother had her legs amputated because of diabetes. She had a treating doctor (who could not force her to make the necessary changes or take medication). When her legs were amputated the surgeon was a doctor we hadn't seen before. He was a surgeon.

One of the things that bothers me so much about the obama regime is how stupid they expect people to be. They say things like this, secure that the crap will be believed. Because of public ignorance, the crap is believed. That's how he got elected.

 

[healthmyths]

new requirements regarding diabetes? what new requirements?

BEFORE ACA, my Medicare Advantage plan was fantastic regarding all my diabetic medications.
NOW my Medicare Advantage plan which was a for profit paying taxes is one of those EVIL profit making organizations
that ACA wants to eliminate. YUP... and when that happens the advantages that because of the competition between
Advantage plans I didn't have to pay the standard $104/month deducted from my SS .. I get $50/month in free OTC products are all targets for ACA.
And after all there NEVER were 46 million "uninsured" as Obama LIED about.
10 million are not citizens.
14 million WERE eligible BEFORE ACA for medicaid and yet THEY were counted as "uninsured" to pass ACA.
18 million who don't want insurance, can afford and didn't need!
4 million really needed coverage that's it!