WASHINGTON — Dr. Richard S. Kerr, M.D., a West Virginia Libertarian Party member and a retired doctor with 36 years experience, asked President Barack Obama Thursday to apologize for comments made in his Wednesday night press conference accusing doctors of conspiring to make children sicker for profits.
“President Obama should be ashamed of himself for trying to scare Americans into supporting his government takeover of medicine by falsely accusing doctors of making children sicker. I have never heard a more disgusting or blatantly phony conspiracy theory. We treat our patients with the respect, care and concern you will never find in Obama’s government-run rationed care bureaucracy,” said Dr. Kerr.
“On behalf of my colleagues, I respectfully ask President Obama to apologize for such a slanderous lie and ask him to stop engaging in sickening conspiracy theories to push his government-run scheme. These cheap scare tactics are beneath the dignity of the office of The President and perfectly illustrate why more and more Americans are losing faith in Barack Obama.”
In his Wednesday night press conference, Obama claimed, “…you come in and you’ve got a bad sore throat, or your child has a bad sore throat or has repeated sore throats, 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.”
“For President Obama’s information, pediatricians do not perform tonsillectomies. If he doesn’t know that, then he has no business centrally planning your family’s health care,” said Dr. Kerr.
What a ridiculous statement from someone supposed to be so “eloquent”.
Doctors making children sick on purpose. Sure, scare all the parents. Does he
really know what he is even saying? It seems to be contagious in Washington lately. I moderate 3 online support groups for sleep and movement disorders, and we, among others around the country AND world, have a letter writing campaign going to Rep. Henry Waxman, and his view that Restless Legs Syndrome is a joke to him, as well as to his buddy on the Health Reform committee, Rep Nadler from NY. Nadler’s remarks were more of irritation. He does not know what it is, and by interjecting RLS into a discussion about drug ads, he said “Whatever the hell that is.” So, are we to expect that if our leaders in gov’t do not believe a debilitating condition such as RLS exists, that we will not get treatment for it? The future is looking dark as far as this health care “reform”
situation. This is worse than a lot of us could have possibly imagined.