#Trump's Dr. Oz: The uninsured "don't have the right to health," but should be given "a way of crawling back out of the

[riversedge]

The cruel man--dr oz is collecting our tax money for his salary.

The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow
Dr. Oz: The uninsured “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.” (2022)

Link to tweet

?s=20

[PittBlue]

1. Thank you, Oprah.

[Faux pas]

5. She done us wrong, in many ways.

Dr phil is another one and his reruns play almost all day on her OWN channel.

[BComplex]

23. Oz is sick. I mean, really sick.

All of trump's republican appointees and buddies are sick, and rotten to the core.

[Faux pas]

31. You are correct!

the hump hates decent human beings, to him they're just in his way.

[milestogo]

10. She has done some good things with her money.

But unfortunately she is a poor judge of character.

[AStern]

17. Oprah didn't become a billionaire by being nice.

Behind the Bastards did a six part series on her. Most of her backstory is bee ess too.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Part 4:

Part 5:

Part 6:

[snowybirdie]

27. And who in the world

Cares if Opera was born out of wedlock? A term no longer in use! If this bothers anyone, I say get a life!

[Initech]

39. Oprah is someone who I literally lost all respect for years ago.

[LoisB]

42. I never had any to lose.

[Initech]

45. After I found out she helped create the wellness industry...

And how corrupt and insane they've become, that was it.

[AStern]

55. I was never a fan...

I always felt that she was foisted upon us.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

63. A really pathetic excuse compared to other talk shows...

Remember serious shows like Dick Cavett and Phil Donahue? I guess all that intellectual stuff just couldn’t draw viewers like Oprah’s, “Oh, look what fad I’m heavily into *this* week!” brand of hucksterism. *eyeroll*

In many ways, I blame her for where we are today.

[Toby Bo]

65. Shirley MacLane and Oprah replaced Ralph Nader and Donahue

Television needed to compete against subscription cable with their advertising model.A television in one house changed to a television in every room and each had a separate viewer with separate advertising.This expanded advertising to different markets and revenue that saved the advertising based broadcast product.

Women control household spending and purchase decisions so advertising to them made more sense than Nader and Donahue who were bashing corporate consumerism.Oprah and MacLane have instant recognition for instant engagement.Donahue had to develop the topic and hope the viewer remained through the next break.

Advertising changed television to suit itself and networks let public service go extinct in order to survive against subscription cable. PBS could replace some of what was lost but government subsidy and viewer donations were like a small subscriber base.Donahue was on PBS and long form news that develops engagement and did not have instant engagement shock news.

[moonscape]

53. My sister worked for

UNESCO and did a lot of work in Africa. She recounted when Oprah opened a school there and was showing up, maybe for the opening, or just after, I forget (has been a long time.). Anyway, everyone was waiting for her and when she finally arrived, many hours later, it was with a huge entourage, she was wearing high heels, plenty of cameras, played the privileged queen - very tone deaf to where she was, those around her, etc. My sister said she was appalling oblivious to how she had kept people waiting all day, no apology, disrespectful …

[spanone]

2. Fuck oz.

[Faux pas]

3. Yeah Sure Ya Betcha

just another scammer, fraudster and all around asshole.

[marble falls]

4. "Dr" Oz needs a way to crawl back into his hole.

[Rebl2]

6. OZ

should have his medical license revoked!

[buzzycrumbhunger]

50. I always assumed

... he didn't have one. 🤔

[jmowreader]

54. Before he met Oprah he was a very good surgeon

However, when he wasn’t doing something that required opening you up he was always a believer in quackery…

[buzzycrumbhunger]

62. Welp, I did acute care transcription for years...

… and a favourite joke amongst us was this one:

Q: What do you call the guy who graduated at the dead bottom of his class in medical school?

A: Doctor.

In my experience, there are a LOT of shitty doctors out there and many who can’t dictate their way out of a paper bag. It’s scary. Don’t recall a single one of them advocating for quackery and goofy internet misinformation, though.

If he ever had a license, they definitely need to pull it.

[Rebl2]

60. He was

a surgeon I believe. Not sure where.

[BootinUp]

7. Festival like setting? Wtf did that come from?

Maybe he meant circus like.

[Timeflyer]

8. "Festival like setting"? Like the ER on a Saturday night?

Crawl, peasants. Let's see who makes it to the finish line alive.

[Ocelot II]

9. What the actual, ever-living, platinum-plated fuck?

What is wrong with these people? A 15-minute physical? He thinks it's possible in 15 minutes to diagnose diabetes or cancer or atherosclerosis or most of the other ailments that can actually kill you? You're walking upright and not bleeding from any orifices so you're OK, out you go! Hope you enjoyed the festival, peasant!

[3catwoman3]

57. "What the actual, ever-living, platinum-plated fuck?"

I shall be borrowing this pithy turn of phrase.

One of the things that first drew me to DU was the unrestrained and colorful ways many members express themselves. This will be one of my favorites.

[Attilatheblond]

11. Some very rich people resent the possibility that someone of lesser means might get a doctor appointment

and keep the very rich from having care on demand. Some of them just don't want to be told 'not today' for their minor medical complaints.

[2naSalit]

12. Fuck that guy!

He needs some edumacation I thinks.

[turbinetree]

13. Must be nice to have taxpayer funded health care and then to sell elixirs and make millions

and have no worries footing out cash to pay for a one's health care visit from the selling of the products or even have televised contract that healthcare be paid for thru advertisements to oneself or salary perks.......and then go around and tell people to eat cake and die basically your not worthy.................must have read and taken another oath when it came to Hippocratic Oath..................

[Seinan Sensei]

35. Right

Whatever happened to
Do no harm ?

[turbinetree]

40. That went down with the toilet after he got paid off.............or he just forgot that part of the oath and had his

hands behind his back with finger crossed.........he's another one of those grifters ...............

[turbinetree]

46. But who confirmed him to the position should not lose site of that also............

[Efilroft Sul]

14. Choke on your crudites before you do more harm, doctor.

[MustLoveBeagles]

15. Quack says what?

[TommieMommy]

16. How horrible 😡😡

[Gaugamela]

18. A festival setting, as in The Hunger Games? We'll give you fascists a chance to crawl back

In fifteen minute intervals like the gladiator fights in the Colosseum. We’ll all take bets and cheer.

[GiqueCee]

19. Dr. Ooze...

... is yet another of Trump's slimier selections for a post he doesn't deserve. What an asshole. His God complex is revolting.

[Intractable]

20. Insurance does not equal healthcare. Insurance equals industry profits.

The biggest problem with ACA is that it mainlines taxpayer dollars to insurance companies.

The biggest problem for many of us little guys is that they are now taking the "affordability" part of the ACA away.

Dems need to run on universal healthcare.

[BComplex]

22. People need to see their insurance payments as accelerated income taxes.

If even HALF of all health insurance payments were instead paid as taxes, we could have universal health care for every single American, and never again have some billionaire insurance executive decide your family member should be declined a life-saving procedure.

Insurance companies have no fucking business in our health care "industry".

[Timeflyer]

32. Great point!

[Solly Mack]

21. Damn

[littlemissmartypants]

24. Another psychopath:

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

[Nigrum Cattus]

25. He should go back to Turkey where he is from

[IbogaProject]

26. The AMA should kick him out

And he can grovel his way back providing some of those "festival checkups" under strict supervision of a team of component, compassionate medical doctors.

[Ray Bruns]

28. And there it is. The stupidest fucking thing I've heard all day.

[LittleGirl]

29. Stop blaming Oprah

OZ is a grown ass man. He's the one that ruined his own name. I never saw the draw to him.

[Figarosmom]

30. Oh good, the uninsured

Get to be told they are sick and can't do snatching about it.

He's a real piece of work.

[LudwigPastorius]

33. "15 minute physicals...in a festival-like setting"

“You have lung cancer. Now go get a corny dog and enjoy the Fun House!”

[Samael13]

34. Hard to believe this dude was a respected surgeon at one point

[Gum Logger]

36. Nasty ole social Darwinists

[Initech]

37. Wow! Fuck this piece of shit to the hottest of hells!

[flashman13]

38. Oz should crawl back under his slimy rock where he belongs. Quack Quack

[ChicagoTeamster]

41. MAGA overlooks the fact that OZ is Turkish and Muslim but Mamdani is Muslim so he's a terrorist.

[MineralMan]

43. Scumbag Asshole!

Let them eat brioche!

[Scalded Nun]

44. Another gift from Oprah. Oz and Phil. What a team.

[LT Barclay]

47. Denial of healthcare is eugenics. He's a friggin Nazi

[JohnnyRingo]

48. I don't know where to begin with this.....

First I'd check to see if it's The Onion, but passing that test I'd have to say he's the least compassionate man who could be possibly be called "doctor".
If they find something wrong will there be pawn shops and payday loan booths on site? How about bootstraps in the swag bag.

Finally, who's the band at this festival? The Grateful Dead aren't around anymore

[Shipwack]

49. Dr Oz's "festival setting".

[Blue Owl]

51. Pay no attention to that man

[Justice matters.]

52. Keep on sinking the republicans ratings (FOX Poll)

Two-thirds of Americans say government should ensure health care for all: poll

FOX5 poll: https://www.fox5dc.com/news/two-thirds-americans-believe-government-should-ensure-health-care-all-poll

Yell it at all the idiot magats (those 1/3 stupid leopard-eaten faces who always vote against their own interests).

[Borogove]

56. What a morally decrepit man he is.

[haele]

58. This was from 2022. Although I don't doubt he still feels this way...

... it's nothing new, and falls perfectly in line with the Heritage Foundation position.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

61. I knew I heard this story before.

[3catwoman3]

59. Oz must have taken the Hypocritic Oath.

What a heartless thing to say.

[Joinfortmill]

64. Whatever happened to the Hippocratic oath?

[GoodRaisin]

66. Insurance companies don't have the right to profit off people's illnesses

but they slipped in anyway. Insurance needs to be removed from the equation, or at least severely limited.