Applesauce redux: Doocy endorses "treat them like dogs" health care reform fix

[babylonsister]

Nuckin' futz...

http://mediamatters.org/research/201003120033

Applesauce redux: Doocy endorses "treat them like dogs" health care reform fix
4 hours and 37 minutes ago


Less than two weeks after Rush Limbaugh proposed eating "applesauce" as a solution for not being able to afford dentures due to lack of health insurance, Fox's Steve Doocy endorsed a veterinarian's idea to "fix" health care by "treat{ing} people like dogs." Limbaugh has also cited a lack of a "federal dog health care plan" as evidence that health insurance is not necessary.

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Doocy endorses a "treat them like dogs" solution to health care reform

Doocy: Idea to "treat {people} like dogs" "makes a lot of sense." On the March 12 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy reported on a Newsweek column by "very brilliant" veterinarian Karen Oberthaler entitled "Treat People Like Dogs" which suggested that the health care system should resemble the veterinary one. Doocy said the idea "makes a lot of sense," because "we're on the hook" for our pet's medical costs. Doocy said: "here's only 3 percent of Americans who have pet insurance and so we're on the hook for the charges. So, if Americans were on the hook for all the tests and stuff, it would be a lot different." Citing Oberthaler's column, Doocy added: "if you've got a golden retriever...and you know that the dog has got cancer and it's -- you know, there really is no getting any better, would you order a bunch of tests that are going to be costly and right out of your pocket because chances are you don't have the insurance...it also has to do with, you know, putting the dog through pain at the end of the road."

Limbaugh also suggested modeling the health care system after pet medicine because "there's no insurance involved"

Limbaugh: "There's no federal dog healthcare plan out there, and it's working just fine." On the June 15 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show, Limbaugh argued against public health care programs, claiming "there's no federal dog health care plan out there, and it's working just fine," because the "private market is providing dog owners every option they want for their dogs to be cared for" and that "it's based on the owner's ability to pay, there's no insurance involved."

more if you can stomach it...

http://mediamatters.org/research/201003120033

[provis99]

1. Dog shit telling us that people should be treated like dogs?

[virgogal]

2. Gee,that makes this 77 year old a tad uncomfortable. Guess

it will soon be time to "put me down"

Woof !

[hlthe2b]

3. As Rep. Grayson said... the Rethug solution is "Don't get sick"

and if you do, "die sooner."


Monsters, all of them

[Cass]

4. So if someone gets cancer and there's no way they're going to get any better

do we euthanize them to avoid putting them through pain at the end of the road? That's what will happen to the golden retriever in Doocy's story.

Alan Grayson was right when he said their soution is for us to simply drop dead if we get sick and can't afford treatment.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. I would like to see that schmuck put his ass where his mouth is ...

literally AND figuratively.

[tularetom]

6. So let me get this straight, are they advocating death panels?

Because that's what happens when your dog gets old and sick and there's no proven way to treat him or even ease his pain.

[DBoon]

7. DOgs are put down because their owners can't afford the medical bills

Are they suggesting the same for people?

[northoftheborder]

8. Death panels

That's exactly what the pig-man is suggesting. spread it around. It should be quoted everywhere - his sponsors especially should be notified. He just may have a foot he can't take out of his mouth.

[Catshrink]

9. So the Fux News guy wants the government to put people to death

like Virginia Foxx said would happen under "Obama Care?"

The Fux cure for cancer: euthanasia. Brilliant.

[Mike 03]

10. Limbaugh is such a disgrace. I can't believe anyone listens to or admires him.

But thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Kick and Rec.

[eShirl]

11. Are they suggesting euthanasia and forced sterilization for humans?

[DBoon]

12. Yes they are

treating people without their great wealth as animals is just part of their philosophy

Slavery was all about treating humans are farm animals when you get down to it

The right wing in this country wistfully longs for the days when slavery was legal

[driver8]

13. Sounds to me like they are advocating death panels! n/t