Obama Says Grandmother’s Hip Replacement Raises Cost Questions

[Chris]

April 29 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said his grandmother’s hip-replacement surgery during the final weeks of her life made him wonder whether expensive procedures for the terminally ill reflect a “sustainable model” for health care.

The president’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, had a hip replaced after she was diagnosed with cancer, Obama said in an interview with the New York Times magazine that was published today. Dunham, who lived in Honolulu, died at the age of 86 on Nov. 2, 2008, two days before her grandson’s election victory.

“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,” he said in the April 14 interview. “The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health- care bill out here.”

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[Chris]

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Everybody knows doctors cut off people's feet to make that extra boat payment.

[Chris_]

“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.”

Translation :  "If you think you just have to have that operation, and you're 50+, you'll be paying for it yourself when I get control of the healthcare money."

“The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health- care bill out here.”

Translation :  "They're too old to make it to the next election so they can vote for me, so off 'em now.  They're of no use to me anymore."

 

[Chris]

No wonder this guy has 300 advisors.  It takes that many people to keep him from embarrassing himself, and he still manages to put his foot in his mouth every time he speaks.

[Chris_]

Well it does take a special kind of aid or czar to help him pull his head out of his ass when he makes statements