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Dr. Oz: The uninsured dont have the right to health, but should be given a way of crawling back out of the abyss with 15-minute physicals provided by the government in a festival like setting.
Link to tweet
AllyCat
(18,788 posts)lark
(26,064 posts)Otherwise he would not be qualified in krasnovs' eyes.
LiberalArkie
(19,722 posts)lark
(26,064 posts)Russian agents
Rapists
Fraudsters
Grifters
Haters
Destroyers of everything good
Those are the folks he (and his master) chose.
Deuxcents
(26,600 posts)D_Master81
(2,521 posts)A festival of physicals? What is this? republican disdain for its own citizens on display for all to see here.
riversedge
(80,608 posts)Dave says
(5,402 posts)Doctor palpitates your abdomen and says, youve got a tumor the size of a football pressing against your kidneys. Then, sorry, your 15 minutes are up. Good luck with that tumor.
I guess afterward you go home and breakout your sharpest carving knives. Self-surgery is so simple. And so it goes. Poor? Sick? Die quickly, please.
MadameButterfly
(4,023 posts)that could go wrong and keep them from showing up in ERs where they get care too late and bankrupt hospitals.
How did guys with this little economic sense get this rich?
Let alone compassion, we won't even go there.
Wednesdays
(22,451 posts)It's how they got to hoard their money.
MadameButterfly
(4,023 posts)paulrevere2018
(84 posts)Have a bit of ambition, you can make money. Look at the heads of drug cartels.
Diamond_Dog
(40,407 posts)I swear they are all insane! A physical in a festival like setting ? Do these people come from another planet?
NJCher
(43,055 posts)In their last life, they were amoebas on Alpha Centauri.
et tu
(2,387 posts)Diamond_Dog
(40,407 posts)LiberalArkie
(19,722 posts)blood pressure checks, etc for poor people. This way the medical community can claim that they are treating the poor and homeless people.
MadameButterfly
(4,023 posts)and people did take advantage of them. They were a big deal before Obamacare.
womanofthehills
(10,962 posts)A few yrs after Obama Care started.
Give them a way of crawling back out of the abyss, of darkness, of fear, of not having the health they need, and give them an opportunity, he said, according to the outlet. They dont have a right to health, but they have a right to access, to get that health.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dr-ozs-stance-uninsured-americans-200525724.html
SamKnause
(14,877 posts)How is this crawling out of the abyss ???
It isn't.
Irish_Dem
(81,012 posts)They are just mocking and humiliating the uninsured.
SamKnause
(14,877 posts)magicarpet
(18,486 posts).... it delivers upon the illusion that you give a damn,... but in reality you could care less. Happy-happy talk.
NJCher
(43,055 posts)With the hand crawling gesture.
Crawling out of the abyss.
Unbelievable!
Delmette2.0
(4,498 posts)I hope that is true. I all ready dislike the man, but this is beyond cruel or uncaring or what??!!
I hope his audience walks away from his miracle cures.
How does he find a new one every day???
Actually, I hope he ends up penniless like the pillow guy.
allegorical oracle
(6,428 posts)$5,000/month prescriptions.
dchill
(42,660 posts)Irish_Dem
(81,012 posts)dchill
(42,660 posts)Irish_Dem
(81,012 posts)delisen
(7,342 posts)So if any of the uninsured manage to crawl away from Ozs Abyss and apply for insurance they can be denied
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,435 posts)And if decent people have thought of it, you just know they've fantasized cruelties much worse.
alarimer
(17,146 posts)People without money should just fucking die, is that it?
What about communicable diseases? That's bad for everyone, insured or not. Your mansion doesn't insulate you from anything, Dr. Oz.
NCDem47
(3,437 posts)If you can't afford healthcare (conveniently with premiums going up, up, and up to consume more after-tax income)...you're a third-class citizen.
PatSeg
(53,173 posts)He talks about the "working poor" as if they are a different species, not real human beings like him and his entitled cronies. Has a real fascist ring to it.
NoRethugFriends
(3,743 posts)dchill
(42,660 posts)NoRethugFriends
(3,743 posts)Sky Jewels
(9,148 posts)What a track record ...
ecstatic
(35,058 posts)NoRethugFriends
(3,743 posts)She popularized too dangerous charlatans who have always shown that they were clearly jerks and grifters.
wolfie001
(7,571 posts)SNL should def do a skit on that
58Sunliner
(6,310 posts)dchill
(42,660 posts)Last edited Sun Apr 20, 2025, 12:07 PM - Edit history (2)
but what about crudités?
58Sunliner
(6,310 posts)TommieMommy
(2,851 posts)Kid Berwyn
(24,194 posts)NAZI turd.
SalviaBlue
(3,108 posts)Answered.
lame54
(39,642 posts)dutch777
(5,048 posts)And let's add on cutting back FDA and other food and drug quality oversights so corporate greed can poison folks more easily and offer up even more unhealthy food options with impunity. What could go wrong?
no_hypocrisy
(54,826 posts)milestogo
(23,010 posts)to come by and chat for 15 minutes... Doctor will throw out a few diagnoses that the patient might have, a few tests that would be run if the patient had insurance, and a few platitudes. Patient will leave with heightened anxiety.
NJCher
(43,055 posts)Real doctors will have no time for this farce.
milestogo
(23,010 posts)VTderry
(120 posts)Because "Burning Man" is already taken.
Though setting a 20-foot Rod of Asclepius aflame in the center while the Hippocratic Oath gets violated on an epic scale all around it would add a undeniably dramatic element.
LudwigPastorius
(14,624 posts)It's a festival!

Blues Heron
(8,750 posts)obviously. maybe he has a degree or whatever, but this is not the message of a true healer
North Shore Chicago
(4,236 posts)will this madness and mayhem end? These subhumans are malicious, what did we do to deserve this? The end of the trump error can not come soon enough.
In good I trust.
Johonny
(26,073 posts)They just take it and take it and take it and if you are lucky they will make fun of your lack of money and crap on you.
Ritabert
(2,351 posts)Also green coffee extract and raspberry ketones.
highplainsdem
(61,746 posts)Last edited Sun Apr 20, 2025, 12:24 PM - Edit history (1)
Tweet about it from 9/7/2022:
Link to tweet
NJCher
(43,055 posts)Didnt go over so well.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,435 posts)The tiny banner below says, "Watch: Pres. Obama addresses nat'l Governors Assn. Live 10:45 am ET."
highplainsdem
(61,746 posts)which is why the old tweet is from 2022.
2022 article on it: https://www.aol.com/news/dr-oz-says-uninsured-americans-180511104.html
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,435 posts)That tweet got lots of traction.
GoCubsGo
(34,881 posts)Fuck you, Oprah Winfrey, for inflicting this sociopath con artist shitbag on our society. He fits right in with the other monsters who installed him and surround him.
BoRaGard
(7,591 posts)republicons are pissing on the fundamental Christian teaching of Charity.
allegorical oracle
(6,428 posts)swearing-in ceremony. They must be good, God-fearing folks.
MLWR
(991 posts)I just knew that they consider themselves to be good christians.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,435 posts)heads lowered as if receiving the word, an oversized grotesque crucifix on the wall behind them, thus providing irrefutable evidence of their devotion to their "god," aka the grifting bloated bastard.
purr-rat beauty
(1,215 posts)His 15 minutes of shame is up before the first 3 were spent
I thought the hippocratic oath meant something?
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,920 posts)Borrowed directly from a story called The Second Coming by Joe Gores.
Autumn
(48,941 posts)Jacson6
(1,952 posts)But you can't afford insulin so you are gonna die. Well at least they still have the right to die.
lark
(26,064 posts)Lying profiteering jerkface is all either one of these is.
C_U_L8R
(49,315 posts)How many ways can he break the doctor's oath? So Trumpy.
sop
(18,428 posts)rurallib
(64,677 posts)as they crawl out of the abyss.
You could get rid of a lot while MAGA congress refuses to help and the SCOTUS dithers over how to say it is constitutional
Onthefly
(1,266 posts)Hippocratic Oath: No. Hypocrisy Oath: Yes.
Javaman
(65,637 posts)OneGrassRoot
(23,950 posts)NJCher
(43,055 posts)Just look at her space explorer friend, Gayle King, who has shown herself to be an extraordinary tone-deaf asshole.
ReRe
(12,185 posts)OneGrassRoot
(23,950 posts)ExciteBike66
(2,700 posts)travelingthrulife
(5,087 posts)Clouds Passing
(7,879 posts)Attitudes like that dont deserve to exist.
kellytore
(260 posts)promoting Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil?
Rebl2
(17,656 posts)She doesnt care.
ReRe
(12,185 posts)Now this. This one took my breath away. Don't have a right to health?
Son just stopped to read what was on my screen and said "Sounds like a Monty Python skit."
I think I agree with my son. It just doesn't sound real.
What a pompous prick! Wonder how long it's been since his feet were on the ground?
He's been up there in the clouds wayyyyyy too long!
Paladin
(32,354 posts)I might give them points for consistency---but no, just fuck the whole bunch of them. Can't wait until they're all history; think of all the years it will take this country to recover from all this...
dweller
(28,287 posts)We must crawl ?
Got it
😐
✌🏻
ReRe
(12,185 posts)He's useless up here at ground zero.
patphil
(9,002 posts)My answer to that is universal, free health care for everyone.
Old Crank
(6,949 posts)That would have been horrendous.
Marthe48
(23,088 posts)It was a nasty dream, but my waking moments are filled with rats.
Historic NY
(39,966 posts)Physicals and feats of strength.
Martin68
(27,600 posts)regnaD kciN
(27,610 posts)dalton99a
(93,926 posts)
Lineup of people waiting outside free medical clinic in L.A. on Oct. 17, 2011

People wait at dawn to see a doctor at the Remote Area Medical (RAM) mobile dental and medical clinic on December 3, 2016 in Milton, Florida.

People wait in line to enter the Remote Area Medical (RAM) mobile clinic on October 7, 2017 at the Riverview School in Grundy, Virginia
vapor2
(4,401 posts)This is old but still...............
2naSalit
(102,242 posts)Impart the thoughts rushing through my brain for fer of a visit from the goon squad.
Silent Type
(12,412 posts)JHB
(38,150 posts)Like so many in Trump's maladministration, his main qualification is "as seen on TV."
Safe as Milk
(244 posts)There's no amount of suffering too great for the unfortunate who've fallen on bad times. Oz is just another prick in the pickle jar.
Figarosmom
(11,614 posts)At least he acknowledges they have jobs and are still uninsured. He just doesn't care. THEY CAN SCRATCH THEIR WAY OUT OF THE ABYSS. So are they our great unwashed to him?
ecstatic
(35,058 posts)Not just as a doctor, but now as the CMS administrator.
"... crawling back out of the abyss" ?!??
He views the uninsured as bugs or rodents?
And how would a festival check-up deal with cancer and serious conditions that require MRIs etc?
Initech
(108,585 posts)They are actively trying to kill large portions of them by forcing these monsters on us.
IbogaProject
(5,835 posts)His grandmother was a concubine to the final Sultan in Turkey. Then married into money. So this twerp has glided through life and basically stopped being a physician as he doesn't have the character to work hard. Probably lacks empathy and wasn't willing to push himself to keep patients alive. Never liked him nor Oprah but reading his WIKI was worse than I expected. And a dual citizen who trained in the Turkish Army, rather than ours.
Initech
(108,585 posts)choie
(6,889 posts)the new head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Lord help us.
LudwigPastorius
(14,624 posts)They'll be the kind of physicals, no doubt, that inquire about your citizenship/immigration status and collect your DNA for future reference.
Vinca
(53,859 posts)having obvious medical problems. They notice a toe with gangrene, an abscessed tooth, maybe a cancerous mole. Do they then get medical treatment from the government or a note to go home and say their farewells to friends and family? This is all taking bizarre (and disgusting) to new lows.
Zambero
(9,974 posts)in a festival-like setting?
Bristlecone
(11,097 posts)unblock
(56,177 posts)Blue Owl
(58,937 posts)buzzycrumbhunger
(1,886 posts)... and the other quacks foisted on us by Oprah, but my first reaction to this bullshit was a profound desire for some epidemic to rampage this cabal of lunatics in DC--something that makes every last penis wither and drop off.
Let's see how high and mighty you arseholes are when all you have is your money and hatred.
JFC...
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(135,193 posts)Loryn
(1,045 posts)That is all.
Skittles
(171,369 posts)because we already know they don't give a FUCK if people can access healthcare
Sugarcoated
(8,240 posts)Beartracks
(14,544 posts)Buddyzbuddy
(2,502 posts)How does he have time to work in the gov't to screw Americans over? Doesn't he have some fake cure for male pattern baldness that helps you lose 100 lb.s in 3 days via your colon to shill for?
Brainfodder
(7,781 posts)1/33 and still just prefer bringing thousands a year to medical debt bankruptcy should probably be considered crimes against humanity?.
It sure isn't the moral right thing to do to people?
We living in the United States of Corporations.
GoneOffShore
(18,017 posts)Siwsan
(27,831 posts)luvallpeeps
(1,285 posts)WestMichRad
(3,216 posts)WTF? Does he want them to be able to sell tickets and grift off the poor?
And HIPAA? Screw their privacy, in the name of reality show entertainment?
What an ass!
marble falls
(71,729 posts)spanone
(141,430 posts)k_buddy762
(638 posts)or insane, or both
hadEnuf
(3,599 posts)while standing in line with a band playing.
Gee, that sounds kind of familiar in history.