Gateway Pundit reports that Barack Obama’s own physician is against Obamacare.
So the doctor that Barack Obama visited for over 20 year said the President’s plan is “bound for failure.”
Dr. David Scheiner, a 70-year Chicago-based physician who treated Obama for more than 20 years, said he was disheartened by the health care legislation his former patient is championing, calling it piecemeal and ineffectual.
“I look at his program and I can’t see how it’s going to work,” Scheiner told the Huffington Post. “He has no cost control. There would be no effective cost control in his program. The [Congressional Budget Office] said it’s going be incredibly expensive … and the thing that I really am worried about is, if it is the failure that I think it would be, then health reform will be set back a long, long time.”
So I got out my Obama Emergency Response Kit and started flipping through the pages. (There aren’t that many)
So here’s what Obama will do next, according to the Obama playbook:
First Obama will hold a prime time press conference to say he could no sooner renounce his physician than he would his old business partner Tony Rezko…er…or his preacher Jeremiah Wright…uhm…another bad example…or his own white grandmother whom he denounced by calling her a racist. Well never mind all those people. He’ll just say he couldn’t renounce someone he’s been so close to all these years. And leave it at that.
And then when the doctor goes on Fox News to talk about the shortcomings of Obama’s plan, Obama will pull aside a few friendly reporters to tell them, “Well he didn’t really visit his doctor all that much and when he did he didn’t really pay that close attention.” He’ll say he didn’t need a doctor because he’s in such great shape and then he’ll take off his shirt. Chuck Todd and Keith Olbermann will then be carried out after fainting.
Then after the doctor’s quotes start making the rounds and gaining traction in the press, Obama will then hold another prime time press conference to say that he’s shocked….shocked that someone he was so close to could say and do such a thing. He’ll say, “This is not the physician I once knew and it’s sad to see him change in such a way. And these remarks by a doctor so clearly dominated by greed highlight the terrible need for health care reform which the Republicans are blocking because they hate children.”
And then when polls come out saying Obama treated his physician unfairly he’ll invite the doctor over for a beer to the White House. Photos will be taken but no questions will be allowed.
And then he’ll hold a prime time press conference talking about why this was a “teachable moment for America.” And also that George W. Bush was very bad.
July 30, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Interesting bit of news and fantastic commentary! Thanks for the humor you bring to dark situations
July 30, 2009 at 9:36 pm
A physician friend of mine summed up Obamacare: Everyone will be covered and no one will receive care.
July 30, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Lori,
I'd be careful if I were you around this physician "friend." Obama says they pull kids tonsils out to make money. Goodness know what he would do to you.
July 30, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Relax, Matthew. If you're lucky you'll be able to get sun-screen and lipo covered under Obamacare. That would definitely be a plus for you.
July 30, 2009 at 11:59 pm
I'm a pelosi puppet and I'm in favor of Obamacare. Who doesn't want to be taken care of? At least rich people have to pay for it while poor folks like me don't have to do anything.
July 31, 2009 at 2:53 am
What we really need to demanding is to see Obama's birth certificate. He's not even a U.S. citizen; that's why I voted for John McCain. At least he was born in the U.S. When is the Supreme Court going to demand to see his birth certificate?!!!
July 31, 2009 at 4:29 am
Anon 9:53,
Sounds like you've been listening to To be a sucessful Conservative mouthpiece, you only have to talk show hosts who talk loud, interrupt guests / callers, endlessly repeat worn-out talking points. Learn to say "I'm on a hard break" and cut to commericial when by some chance a guest starts making a valid point, and endlessly repeat worn-out talking points. (See what I mean?)
July 31, 2009 at 6:24 am
We get the lamest, most obvious trolls.
Anyway, I heard a rumor that if Obamacare does pass, doctors will form roving bands and start jumping out of the bushes to give people expensive diagnoses and needless tests. So they should come out all right.