There he was again with the profit motive. Only this time he was actually making the argument that the doctor would be so malevolent as to allow the diabetic in question to purposefully worsen the condition, just to cash in. I cannot repeat this strongly enough--his willingness to view doctors with such contempt and disrespect sickens me, as it should every medical practitioner in the nation. As best as I can tell there is no other industry that swears to the ideals of such a lofty vision as is found in the Hippocratic Oath. Yet in allegiance to such an oath is something lost on the man who placed his hand on a Bible and took one to uphold our liberties, freedoms, and responsibilities as outlined in the Constitution.

On this issue he was also factually wrong. And given the extreme amount of detail that goes into any Presidential proclamation, a safe wager would be to say, that he knew he was not speaking the truth. The matter of monetary reimbursement was publicly stated by the American Medical Association within 24 hours. No doctor ever receives even a $1000 for the amputation of a foot. They also do not receive it "immediately." The facts according to the AMA are that reimbursement for amputations are slow in coming and average between $500-$700.

And then there was of course his grandmother, who he implied during the campaign was a racist, whose very hip replacement surgery--fully covered by her own insurance plan--he questioned as to whether it was necessary or not, because of her pre-existing condition:

“I don’t know how much that hip replacement cost,” Obama said in the interview. “I would have paid out of pocket for that hip replacement just because she’s my grandmother.” Obama said, “You just get into some very difficult moral issues when considering whether to give my grandmother, or everybody else’s aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they’re terminally ill. That’s where I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues.”

So by his own thinking, and now admission, had it been left to a public option or single-payer Government-run plan, there is a strong possibility she would have been denied coverage for her hip replacement because of her pre-existing condition.

But wasn't that one of the massively huge problems his public option plan was supposed to prevent?

So is everyone else's granny supposed to die in misery with a crumbling, dysfunctional hip, just because they are sick with something else?

Is this the utopia that Obama's health care plan is supposed to usher in?

Does anyone besides me feel the least bit queasy that in order to convince us the President has to resort to illustrations of unnecessary amputations in order to show us the rightness of the need?

Does his confusion between $500 and $50,000 cause anyone else who is struggling with all their might to pay their bills to shudder at his clarity on the numbers in a system he wants to spend $3,000,000,000,000 on?

These are important questions, and I desperately hope that while he's living it up on Martha's Vineyard this week that he works in a little time to consider them, you know... In between the wine and cheese events...