Mehmet Oz, widely recognized as television’s “Dr. Oz” and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head Medicare and Medicaid, has sparked controversy over resurfaced remarks from a 2013 speech, where he addressed the balance between personal and governmental responsibility for the uninsured.Dr. Oz...
Did anyone read the article? I didn’t really understand it, the way he phrased it. I mean I’m not defending him or anything. He said a lot of other crap, but in the article it sounded like he was saying uninsured didn’t DESERVE the right to health, but rather didn’t currently(2013) POSSESS the right to health, because they were uninsured. He said that people should be screened for free. Not sure what kind of screening he was talking about but…
Is that the way you read it?
Your interpretation is generous, but let’s go with it. So hospital ERs should deny patients without insurance. Let them die, let babies die, let grandmothers die, all because they are poor. That is what you are saying he was saying.
And that, my friend, is immoral bullshit. People like that are a plague on society.
No I get it. I’m not defending the celebrity medic. I’m just saying that I think the title may have been misleading. But quite seriously I found what he did actually say a bit confusing. That’s all.
That’s not the way I read it, but I can see where you’re coming from:
Comes across as “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” rhetoric to me.