Dr. Oz Says Uninsured Have No 'Right to Health'

[applegrove]

Dr. Oz Says Uninsured Have No ‘Right to Health’

September 7, 2022 at 12:52 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 253 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/09/07/dr-oz-says-uninsured-have-no-right-to-health/


Video:

Link to tweet

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Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate Mehmet Oz (R) said uninsured Americans “don’t have the right to health,” but should be given “a way of crawling back out of the abyss” with “15-minute physicals” provided by the government “in a festival like setting.”

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[2naSalit]

1. Well that's a big vote loser...

Especially for those poor in PA who are ten cents better off than their neighbors in WV and KY.

[yellowcanine]

2. Funnel cakes and prostate exams!

What could go wrong?

[Yavin4]

22. Okay. The folks doing the prostate exams...

cannot be handling the funnel cakes. Okay. Can we all agree on that?

[cynical_idealist]

28. is it worse than licking the dumpster?

OZ is wrong in all ways.

[Eyeball_Kid]

46. Oh... LET THEM EAT FUNNEL CAKES! n/t

[Joinfortmill]

3. Oprah! Denounce this pig.

[MontanaMama]

7. I sure wish she would.

He's NUTS.

[Meowmee]

10. She is the one who created this charlatan

And many others.

[twodogsbarking]

4. Says the man with a net worth estimated to be more than $100 mil.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Neither do carpet-bagging wanna-be senators! n/t

[ShazzieB]

55. Good one, CaliforniaPeggy!

He is so odious! I can't wait to watch him go down in flames in November.

[MontanaMama]

6. This statement tells voters all they need to know

about Mehmet Oz. He said out loud what Qpubs have been whispering to each other since the beginning of time.

[elleng]

9. Right. HOPE PA Dems are informing the public about this.

[Zambero]

23. Did Oz enter the race to sabotage Republican chances of holding a Senate seat?

If Oprah or whoever put him up to this task, he's doing a mighty fine job!

[2naSalit]

25. An attempt to make...

Serfdom normal.

[MontanaMama]

30. The availability of affordable health insurance (or lack thereof) is triggering for me.

We’re a self employed family and thus are self insured. I pay $1955 a month for mediocre insurance for the three of us in this household. That’s just for my little family. I pay health insurance premiums for my employees who aren’t covered by a spouse or a parent’s plan. Yep, I’m a job creator that provides benefits…It’s SO much money I can’t even speak to it and it pisses me off that people like Oz think that getting access to healthcare is so fucking easy or that people that don’t have insurance aren’t doing enough. I’ve never NOT had insurance and I’ve still had to refinance my house three times to cover medical bills. This kind of thing puts me into a rage.

[BlueIdaho]

8. Jesus what a cold hearted scum bag!

His “beating will continue until morale improves” political campaign must be targeted at MAGA self haters. Who else would find this shit ball attractive?

[rurallib]

19. Yep! That really nails Oz.

You can almost see him demanding payment up front before he tends to a mortally wounded person.

[Zambero]

21. The Evil Elf outdoes himself once again

OK Oprah, enough is enough. Call this fraud out and repent for any past association. All WILL be forgiven!

[cynical_idealist]

29. see the new video by that name from Exodus.

Not my usual fare, but well done.

[Buckeyeblue]

11. When people tell you who they are, be sure to listen.

Oz wants a 3rd world America. Just like Trump.

[Cracklin Charlie]

12. What possible good would a "15 minute physical" do...

For a person without access to any follow up care? A “festival type setting”? Like they are celebrating their good fortune of having a stranger look at their body for 15 minutes?

That man is nasty. Even his daughters don’t want to have sex with him. Yeah…he said that, too.

[2naSalit]

26. Even his daughters don't want to have sex with him.

That tells it right there!

JFC, I don't know where to start with this assbite, I think I'll just stop now.

[carpetbagger]

27. You'll get some balloons to sooth the irregular heartbeat. Nt

[doc03]

13. He takes crazy to a new level every time he

speaks. Thanks Oprah.

[Hekate]

14. That's so unbelievable I'd like to see a more extended quote than the snippets on Political Wire

[applegrove]

15. Here is a link to a video. I don't usually link to just a tweet.

Link to tweet

[Hekate]

17. Okay, thank you very much. He really is that awful....

Maybe the “doctor” should attend one of those mass dental clinics that I’ve read about, where at the end of the day there are still long lines and there are literally buckets full of extracted teeth that are too rotted to be saved. In America.

A 15 minute physical? Yes, I’ve had those. My doc goes over my screening work and prescribes things and gives me a follow-up appointment and referrals.

What the hell good does it do to tell someone their blood pressure is thru the roof, or their heart sounds bad, or they have a funny bump that should be biopsied, if there’s no follow-up available? I remember the free mammogram efforts that would turn up women with such metastasized cancers that they were in effect told to go home and arrange care for their children who were soon to be orphans.

What an idiot.

[Emile]

16. So he hates women and hates uninsured people.

Why in heavens name anybody would vote for republicans?

[Eyeball_Kid]

47. This politician treats everyone like shit and promises to continue.

OH! He's a Trump-endorsed Republican! HE'S GOT MY VOTE!

[spanone]

18. Proving again that like trump he's a teevee flim-flam man who has nothing to offer anyone.

FuckOz

[Zambero]

20. Just let them eat Crudite

with a Covfefe chaser in a festive setting.

[Ron Green]

24. A single risk pool is a health care system. Multiple risk pools is an investment scheme.

We have enough investment schemes in this country; we need a health care system.

This Oz clown doesn’t understand that simple truth.

[MontanaMama]

31. He indeed does not understand our current health care system

and our need for more equity. He’s a ridiculous fool.

[markodochartaigh]

38. Exactly

We don't have a health care system. We have a profit making system which produces as much profit as possible while producing as little health care as possible as a byproduct.

[IrishEyes]

32. As a Pennsylvania resident, I look forward to voting against this idiot.

I want to John Fetterman to destroy him on Election Day.

[azureblue]

33. until ha can make money off of it

He used to own a rehab center in Burbank....

[malthaussen]

34. It sounded better in the original German. n/t

[area51]

35. What. The. Actual. Fsck.

F Oz.

[Martin68]

36. Oz has no right to be elected to any office of any kind.

[Stuart G]

40. When the Original Post gets around, Oz will never be elected to anything. Total loser like Trump

[Harker]

37. He mistakenly took the Hippocratic Oath, thinking they said, "Hypocritical."

First, do no smarm.

[Kid Berwyn]

39. Apex Predator MD

Great for making money.

Not great for those who need medical care.

Ask Oz about the grift of wheeler-dealers.

Ask Hippocrates about the gift of healers.

[Aristus]

41. I know he's supposed to be this world-class cardiologist.

But what the hell kind of doctor thinks a health-maintenance physical exam can be done thoroughly in just fifteen minutes? My annual physical exams are a minimum of thirty minutes, and can run to close to forty-five minutes, depending on the patient. I always schedule annual physicals for last appointment of the morning, or last appointment of the day, so there are no other patients waiting, and I can do a good thorough job. (And also so I can take a break afterwards; they can be tiring.)


What a monster. "Don't have a right to health." What a vile thing to believe.

[applegrove]

45. +100

[pstokely]

52. wasn't Ben Carson once a world-class brain surgeon?

who later pushed quack policies

[Stuart G]

42. Great quote Ozzie Boy...You just lost the election on Thursday, September 8th.

Your quote will haunt you for as long as you think you should have won...or forever..

Shows how really....Stupid You Are To Say Something Like That.

Stupid is Still very STUPID

[GoodRaisin]

43. Just another way of talking about the "Republican Health Plan", which is

“don’t get sick”; i.e., “Americans don’t have a right to health”. Their message, his message, is very consistent. Always.

“15 minute physicals” = shit.

Why anyone would think this idea is right and vote for it is beyond comprehension and shows either little understanding or just void of compassion for the suffering of others.

[DFW]

44. Don't have the right to health, eh?

That one should go down in election history alongside "legitimate rape,"

File under "one-liners that lost a race for idiots that already deserved to lose in the first place."

[Ford_Prefect]

48. I believe the time has come to remove this vermin from our shores and send him back to his homeland.

Remove his American passport and deport him without delay, taking only what he might carry with him.

[The Jungle 1]

49. Another republican who

loves American and hates Americans.
You filthy maggot get out of my state.

[Gore1FL]

50. Remember the Paul supporters in the presidential debates

that cheered about having the uninsured die?

[a kennedy]

51. I'm gonna start calling the dr. "Penis pill pusher". From Jimmy Kimmel.

[niyad]

53. Actually, you turkish quack, health care IS a right, per the Universal Declaration

of Human Rights. You should try reading it some time. Oh, and maybe acquaint yourself with the Hippocratic oath that you were supposed to have sworn.

I wish that turkish quack absolutely everything he deserves.

[peggysue2]

54. Another nail for Fetterman to pound

The uninsured don't have the right to health.

As for the access in these 15-minute physicals? We had yearly 'festival-like' medical exams in TN. The lines of the uninsured were incredible and though the physicals were free, the medical treatment was not. I can recall one man who had a serious hernia situation, bad enough he could not work bc of the discomfort (the man was bent over, literally holding his protruding abdomen in his hands). The examining physician said without surgery he was at risk of infection, even death. That sort of diagnosis doesn't help if you can't offer a medical remedy, as in free or reduced-cost services. The physician told the man the required surgery would cost approx $20,000. Btw, my much less involved hernia surgery and appendectomy cost $35,000+.

The dental clinics did offer on-site dental work by participating dental schools and students.

So, this sort of statement by Oz may make the Repugs feel better about their stingy view regarding healthcare but in reality it offers very little to patients who need expensive followups of imaging, medication and/or surgical treatments. It's not the patients who get to 'crawl out of the abyss." It's the uncaring politicians who reject the idea that healthcare should be a right, rather than a costly privilege.

Well, at least we did something, they can say to themselves.

May they all rot in hell!