Ugh

Obama has officially shoved himself in where nobody wanted him: individual medical decisions.
At one meeting, he told a woman that her mother (who had received a pacemaker at 99 years old), would perhaps be told that she was better off taking a painkiller than having a pacemaker under his health care plan. The American Academy of Otolaryntology has objected to Obama 's characterization of its doctors:

President Obama said, “Part of what we want to do is to make sure that those decisions are being made by doctors and medical experts based on evidence, based on what works…. Right now, doctors a lot of times are forced to make decisions based on the fee payment schedule that's out there. … 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 … I'd rather have that doctor making those decisions based on whether you really need your kid's tonsils out, or whether … something else would make a difference…."

Please. No doctor is "forced" to make a decision like that. Any doctor that makes a decision based on the process you just described should be sued for malpractice. Obama thinks his legislation will change good doctors into "hope and change!" doctors. And that's what they will be-- doctors who offer the hope that their patients' conditions will change, because the care that they'll be able to give will be rationed. By government bureaucrats. Who know nothing about medicine, as the President exemplifies. Lovely.

Also notice the continuation of the "greedy evil" meme. Doctors? Greedy evil people who perform unnecessary procedures to make an extra buck off their patients' suffering. Private sector employees? Evil greedy people who could be "making a difference" if they were doing community organizing or some such thing, but chose instead to go for the money (side note: have you noticed that the democrats' student loan forgiveness program will forgive your student loans after 10 years, but ONLY if you become a public employee?). Investors and their lawyers who put money into American companies and then insisted that their contracts and the law be honored? Greedy evil (although the unions who insisted on contract abrogation to give themselves a larger slice of the pie than the law gave them are honored, noble folk). Tax-evading cabinet members? Gre... oh, wait!