During his press conference tonight, the President wielded this attack against the doctor patient relationship:

You come in and you have a sore throat, or your child has a sore throat, or you have repeated sore throats.  The doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say, “You know what? I make a lot more money if I take this kid’s tonsils out.”  Now, that may be the right thing to do, but I’d rather have that doctor making those decisions just based on whether you really need your kid’s tonsils out…or whether it might make more sense just to change, maybe they have allergies maybe they have something else that would make a difference.

The video can be seen here.

An effective argument against socialized medicine in this debate has been an appeal to the doctor patient relationship: “Who do you trust more, your doctor or the government?” The majority of physicians are against socialized medicine. Likewise, the majority of patients don’t like the government making their health decisions for them. Neither the American people nor their doctors are interested in forming a doctor-government-patient relationship. This relationship is a big obstacle to ObamaCare, and I think the democrats know this. Therefore, I am not surprised when dumb and offensive statements like this are made.