Here’s an interesting video of what happens when Barack Obama’s teleprompter breaks.
Transcript:
Everybody knows that it makes no sense, and, you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs… when… if you… they just give… you gave ‘em treatment early, and they got some treatment, and, uh… a
BudweiserBreathalyzer… or, uh, an inhalator — not aBudweiserBreathalyzer. I haven’t had much sleep in the last 48 hours, so.
And that’s just the first half.
Yes, I know it’s an old video. It’s still worth watching. It is a trainwreck. Two things in that first half alone were notable to me though. The obvious is the Budweiser statement, just by the sheer ridiculousness of it. The less obvious is the asthma statement. Let’s look a bit closer.
you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs… when… if you… they just give… you gave ‘em treatment early, and they got some treatment…
Is it just me, or is that the beginnings of a scary statement? It seems like he’s saying putting a kid with a “treatable” illness like asthma in a hospital bed shouldn’t happen because it “costs” too much. You know, because it’s “treatable”. If only those stupid parents gave those kids their inhalators or a Budweiser or whatever, they wouldn’t have to take up valuable space in a hospital. Because, you know, asthma’s never life threatening or anything. And if that’s such a bad thing, then what would Obama propose to prevent that? Turn them away? Bill the families with “treatable” illnesses more? What?
Just let that sink in.
As I said, a very scary statement.
Hat Tip: My colleague Kim at Wizbang
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Damn, I have asthma. I wish my Mom wouldn’t of gave me those stupid inhalers when I was a kid and instead just gave me a cold one.
“Breathalizer,” not Budweiser. You know, as in Breathilizer tests for drunk driving.
I thought he said “breathalyzer” not Budweiser.
Yes, I’m pretty sure he said “breathalyzer”.
I could use a Budweiser about now, though.
I’l have to give him credit for his actual point, though, because he does not appear to be to be saying asthma is not something that can be life threatening. He’s more talking up the notion of preventive medicine keeping down costs, and I believe he just picked a bad example. People who don’t have regular health insurance will not use the available preventative medicine, and will wind up in the emergency room for something that could have been prevented, his example being the asthma attack that could have been prevented (or treated) by an inhaler. This is known to be a factor in the rising cost of health care, though the more common incidence is the child being brought into the emergency room with a fever that could have been handled by a primary care physician.
Problem is, he wants us all to shoulder the costs of that for people who don’t have health insurance through Government programs, which we all know will spiral out of control.
I swear to God, I thought he said Budweiser! Both times! Ah, well. Fixed.
Obama is an idiot he has no experiance take away his telapromter and he has nothing he has nothin from heart
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