"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." —Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004
2006-12-21 09:39:33 · 31 answers · asked by Sean 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Another incomprehensable statement by our commander in cheif. He has been trying to blame all the problems with medical care on the lawyers and malpractice suits. I guess what he's saying that if someone butchers someone with impunity it's an act of love just like an abuser.
2006-12-22 04:54:09 · answer #1 · answered by wyldfyr 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm guessing by love, he means delivering a baby as a profession is an act of love.
In the context, he's quite right that many OB/GYNs have stopped delivering babies, for the simple fact their Medical Malpractice insurance premiums have skyrocketed. My wife's OB/GYN did this within the last 4 months.
2006-12-21 09:53:49 · answer #2 · answered by MoltarRocks 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I agree with some of the other posters it was about malpractice lawsuits and how they have got out of hand to the point that doctors are afraid to practice medicine and to point out one of the reasons healthcare is so high. GB senior used to say the same thing that we needed to love one another more and quit looking for reasons to sue each other.
2006-12-21 09:57:30 · answer #3 · answered by Enigma 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
WOW! Pondered for 10,200 hours and you don't know what it means? I think it means "Too many good docs are getting out of the business."
2006-12-21 10:02:20 · answer #4 · answered by Bawney 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If the whole speech were shown and not taken out of context it would show that the president was talking about malpractice suits. So to answer, it is about the damaging effects of malpractice suits and the doctors leaving the field.
2006-12-21 09:48:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
He's saying because of the incompetent doctors we now have, Insurance claims have threatened all doctors. If more doctors would get rid of the butchers instead of protecting them the law suites wouldn't happen.
2006-12-21 09:45:04 · answer #6 · answered by jackie 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Because rampant malpractice lawsuits and ruining the medical industry and driving medical costs through the roof
2006-12-21 09:45:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 2⤋
Whatever biased news source you got that from doctored it to make it sound like Bush is endorsing fornication when he was really endorsing the end of the increasing number of needless medical litigation.
Common left-wing spin though, so I was able to recognize it as bs relatively quickly.
2006-12-21 09:49:36 · answer #8 · answered by STILL standing 5 · 3⤊ 4⤋
The doctors are getting out of medicine because most spend $100K a year just on malpractice insurance.
2006-12-21 09:42:22 · answer #9 · answered by Chainsaw 6 · 7⤊ 4⤋
I heard that speech
All I could think is, where is Tony Blair when you need him.
I really like Blair he is the only man on earth that can both speak and translate the Bush language.
Go big Red Go
2006-12-21 09:43:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 5⤋