Dr. Oz: The uninsured "don't have the right to health," but should be given "a way of crawling back out of the abyss" wi

[riversedge]

Dr. Oz: The uninsured “don’t 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.”

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[AllyCat]

1. I hate that man

[lark]

28. tsf chose him on purpose, you know he has to be the worst of the worst.

Otherwise he would not be qualified in krasnovs' eyes.

[LiberalArkie]

38. Each of his appointees are "the worst of the worst"

[lark]

67. Truth!

Russian agents
Rapists
Fraudsters
Grifters
Haters
Destroyers of everything good

Those are the folks he (and his master) chose.

[Deuxcents]

91. And yet they were confirmed, so here we are

[D_Master81]

2. WTF??

A festival of physicals? What is this? republican disdain for its own citizens on display for all to see here.

[riversedge]

52. Trump appointed Oz because he is a mean con man just like himself!!

[Dave says]

100. And what happens afterward?

Doctor palpitates your abdomen and says, “you’ve 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]

106. Yeah, 15 minutes in a physical will treat just about everything

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]

119. "Compassionless" leads to "miserliness"

It's how they got to hoard their money.

[MadameButterfly]

122. yeah, if not smart, greedy will do

[paulrevere2018]

127. If you are willing to say/do anything and

Have a bit of ambition, you can make money. Look at the heads of drug cartels.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. What the ever lovin F**k is this?

I swear they are all insane! A physical in a “festival like setting “? Do these people come from another planet?

[NJCher]

36. This is their first incarnation as humans

In their last life, they were amoebas on Alpha Centauri.

[et tu]

40. and they were kicked out lol nt

[Diamond_Dog]

112. That must be it, Cher.

[LiberalArkie]

43. I think he is referring to free clinics that are set up by medical groups for things like dental cleaning,

blood pressure checks, etc for poor people. This way the medical community can claim that they are treating the poor and homeless people.

[MadameButterfly]

107. There have been some festivals like that

and people did take advantage of them. They were a big deal before Obamacare.

[womanofthehills]

110. Oz made that statement in 2013

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 don’t 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]

4. What purpose would a screening or diagnosis serve if you have no insurance or money to follow a Drs. advice ???

How is this crawling out of the abyss ???

It isn't.

[Irish_Dem]

6. No purpose whatsoever.

They are just mocking and humiliating the uninsured.

[SamKnause]

9. Exactly, no purpose whatsoever.

[magicarpet]

18. Class A-1 lip service,...

.... it delivers upon the illusion that you give a damn,... but in reality you could care less. Happy-happy talk.

[NJCher]

37. His true feelings were conveyed

With the hand crawling gesture.

“Crawling out of the abyss.”

Unbelievable!

[Delmette2.0]

95. That gave me shivers.

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]

27. Yep. Guess the festive bit is blowing New Years Eve whistles while they write

$5,000/month prescriptions.

[dchill]

66. In a "festival-like setting!"

[Irish_Dem]

114. It is demeaning and insulting to people.

[dchill]

115. Unmistakeably.

[Irish_Dem]

116. This is the GOP goal.

[delisen]

74. Maybe results can be sold to insurance companies

So if any of the uninsured manage to crawl away from Oz’s Abyss and apply for insurance they can be denied

[MorbidButterflyTat]

84. You nailed it

And if decent people have thought of it, you just know they've fantasized cruelties much worse.

[alarimer]

5. Monsters, all of them.

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]

22. That was my take too.

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]

64. Sounds about right

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]

7. Once again, thanks Oprah

[dchill]

58. Indeed. My thought exactly.

[NoRethugFriends]

70. Shame they didn't take her the moon and leave her there

[Sky Jewels]

62. And also thanks a lot for that fascist fuck, Dr. Phil.

What a track record ...

[ecstatic]

85. This is not Oprah's fault. nt

[NoRethugFriends]

109. The hell it isn't.

She popularized too dangerous charlatans who have always shown that they were clearly jerks and grifters.

[wolfie001]

87. Would never happen, but would be hilarious if she addressed the Nation to apologize for those 2 clowns

SNL should def do a skit on that

[58Sunliner]

8. He thinks he is entitled to judge, who gets health care and who doesn't. He's a feudal lord and we are serfs.

[dchill]

72. We don't have the right to health -

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but what about crudités?

[58Sunliner]

118. One crudite per person. Don't be greedy.

[TommieMommy]

10. A doctor with no compassion for others 😡

[Kid Berwyn]

63. Why he was chosen.

NAZI turd.

[SalviaBlue]

69. Asked.

Answered.

[lame54]

79. He took the Hypocritic Oath

[dutch777]

11. So inundate every ER with people that have no other access to healthcare. Brilliant plan says no doc anywhere. Just Oz

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]

12. Right to Life, my ass!

[milestogo]

13. I'm picturing a big tent with a lot of naked people sitting on tables waiting for the doctor

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]

41. I'm thinking

Real doctors will have no time for this farce.

[milestogo]

50. And Dr Oz is just a tv doctor.

[VTderry]

71. Quack-a-palooza!

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]

104. Yeah, give homeless people some party hats.

It's a festival!

[Blues Heron]

14. He is not a doctor

obviously. maybe he has a degree or whatever, but this is not the message of a true healer

[North Shore Chicago]

15. Just when

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]

16. The rich dont have a right to money

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]

17. The purveyor of garcinia cambogia says what?

Also green coffee extract and raspberry ketones.

[highplainsdem]

19. Disgusting statement, and also an old one, from 2022. (Actually 2013. See replies 93 and 94.)

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Tweet about it from 9/7/2022:

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[NJCher]

44. Guess the festival idea

Didn’t go over so well.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

93. I wonder if it was even current then

The tiny banner below says, "Watch: Pres. Obama addresses nat'l Governors Assn. Live 10:45 am ET."

[highplainsdem]

94. You're right, and thanks for noticing. It was 2013, and got attention in 2022 during his Senate campaign,

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]

113. Sure

That tweet got lots of traction.

[GoCubsGo]

20. Just when I thought I couldn't hold him in more contempt...

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]

21. "Further, we need more more more tax breaks for rich republicons," - Ozzie (R-Scrooge)

republicons are pissing on the fundamental Christian teaching of Charity.

[allegorical oracle]

30. Oh, but wait -- his wife was wearing a big cross with her low-cut sundress at his

swearing-in ceremony. They must be good, God-fearing folks.

[MLWR]

33. Somehow when I read this post,

I just knew that they consider themselves to be good christians.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

90. Somewhere I'm sure there's a pic of both of them sitting with an open bible on their laps,

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]

23. Looks like...

His 15 minutes of shame is up before the first 3 were spent

I thought the hippocratic oath meant something?

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

45. With Oz, it's more like the Hypocritical Oath.

Borrowed directly from a story called “The Second Coming” by Joe Gores.

[Autumn]

24. I want to send a hearty fuck you to Oprah Winfrey for making this trash clown a household name.

[Jacson6]

25. Dr. says" You have diabetes"

But you can't afford insulin so you are gonna die. Well at least they still have the right to die.

[lark]

26. Just another fool tool chosen by krasnov in his goal to destroy the american workers & poor.

Lying profiteering jerkface is all either one of these is.

[C_U_L8R]

29. Quack doc Oz can eat shit.

How many ways can he break the doctor's oath? So Trumpy.

[sop]

31. This is how socialist revolutions start.

[rurallib]

32. Jesus, Oz, wouldn't it be easier and quicker just to shoot them

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]

34. Welcome to the land of Oz. It is all a scam.

Hippocratic Oath: No. Hypocrisy Oath: Yes.

[Javaman]

35. Our government: a clusterfuck of sociopaths. nt

[OneGrassRoot]

39. Oprah elevated way too many assholes. n/t

[NJCher]

47. She knows how to pick them

Just look at her space explorer friend, Gayle King, who has shown herself to be an extraordinary tone-deaf asshole.

[ReRe]

57. Just like her other buddy, Dr Phil. n/t

[OneGrassRoot]

92. Rachel Ray may be the only non-toxic one. n/t

[ExciteBike66]

42. Wait, is he talking about a fight club?

[travelingthrulife]

46. The personification of evil...the Republican party.

[Clouds Passing]

48. FUCK YOU oz!

Attitudes like that don’t deserve to exist.

[kellytore]

49. Has Oprah ever apologized for

promoting Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil?

[Rebl2]

76. Doubtful

She doesn’t care.

[ReRe]

51. Just when I thought I had heard everything.

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]

53. Nothing but vengeful, cruel, sick shit from trump's crew.

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]

54. So not if we stand and walk from the abyss ?

We must crawl ?

Got it …
😐



✌🏻

[ReRe]

61. Someone needs to throw his butt down into the abyss.

He's useless up here at ground zero.

[patphil]

55. So, only the rich deserve health? That's such a callous attitude.

My answer to that is universal, free health care for everyone.

[Old Crank]

56. He almost became a senator.

That would have been horrendous.

[Marthe48]

59. I had a dream I killed a rat

It was a nasty dream, but my waking moments are filled with rats.

[Historic NY]

60. Dr Assclown.

Physicals and feats of strength.

[Martin68]

65. Monsters in charge of the national health

[regnaD kciN]

68. Will there be a machine that goes "PING!"...?

[dalton99a]

73. Because it worked real well on TV

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]

75. QUACK

This is old but still...............

[2naSalit]

77. I can't...

Impart the thoughts rushing through my brain for fer of a visit from the goon squad.

[Silent Type]

78. Guess that's slightly better than the typical GOPer view that unisured don't deserve healthcare.

[JHB]

80. Can we all agree to drop the title "Doctor" for him? He ceased being a real one long ago.

Like so many in Trump's maladministration, his main qualification is "as seen on TV."

[Safe as Milk]

81. Another fuckin' idiot.

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]

82. What a joke. ..a sad sad joke

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]

83. The contempt he shows to people he has sworn to protect

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]

89. I am legit convinced Fox News hates their audience.

They are actively trying to kill large portions of them by forcing these monsters on us.

[IbogaProject]

86. Spoiled rich prick

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]

88. OMG, these people are pure evil.

[choie]

96. Ladies and Gentlemen,

the new head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Lord help us.

[LudwigPastorius]

97. "government physicals"?

They'll be the kind of physicals, no doubt, that inquire about your citizenship/immigration status and collect your DNA for future reference.

[Vinca]

98. So let's say the poor line up for said "physical festival" and a number of people among them end up

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]

99. Let them eat crudite

in a festival-like setting?

[Bristlecone]

101. What the ever loving fuck!?

[unblock]

102. Leave it to republicans to make a mockery of basic human needs

[Blue Owl]

103. Fuck this guy

[buzzycrumbhunger]

105. I've always despised him

... 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]

108. I wish Oz would remove his head from the abyss AKA his ass.

[Loryn]

111. What an asshole.

That is all.

[Skittles]

117. it's probably a ruse to corner more immigrants

because we already know they don't give a FUCK if people can access healthcare

[Sugarcoated]

120. Fuck Twitter

[Beartracks]

121. "Do no harm." But pushing this bullshit is "doing harm."

[Buddyzbuddy]

123. How do you respond to a to a walking, talking sh.tbag.

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]

124. Compared to zero hope, I'll take it.

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]

125. Can Dr Snake Oil please crawl back into the abyss? Or can someone push him?

[Siwsan]

126. What part of 'First do no harm' does he not understand?

[luvallpeeps]

128. So Lollapalooza is his healthcare plan?

alrighty then.

[WestMichRad]

129. "A festival-like setting"?

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]

130. Fuck this ethically and morally bankrupt, nonelected "official".

[spanone]

131. Another fucking republicon asshole.

[k_buddy762]

132. this dude must be high

or insane, or both

[hadEnuf]

133. So in other words, the poor can get the equivalent of a veterinarian assistant's check

while standing in line with a band playing.

Gee, that sounds kind of familiar in history.