Taxpayers pick up Bush's (colonoscopy) bill

[Kadie]

David Lazarus
Taxpayers pick up Bush's bill
David Lazarus

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

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If anyone understands the benefits of government-run health care, it's the president.

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No one at the White House could be reached to discuss how much the president paid out of his own pocket for the colonoscopy and subsequent testing.

Presidents typically have their own health insurance, although the first-class treatment they receive is largely defrayed by taxpayer funds. In other words, they're prime beneficiaries of government-run health care - just like in Cuba.

In a paper found on the Web site of the Defense Department's Armed Forces Institute of Pathology ( www.afip.org ), former White House physician George Fuller outlines the mission of the taxpayer-funded White House Medical Unit.

He writes that a primary purpose of the group is to provide "confidential, immediate and private access to preventive, routine and urgent care for the principals." This, Fuller adds, "is a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week commitment with no exceptions."

The quality of health care is so exacting, he observes, "that the president cannot even ride an elevator in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building without a physician escort."

According to Fuller, the president enjoys the benefits of medical and dental clinics in the White House, as well as "a fully equipped and supplied outpatient clinic" at Camp David, where Bush's colon was explored.

He says the White House Medical Unit also "keeps a unique and extensive library of medical facilities throughout the world" to provide for the president's health care needs during overseas travel.


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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/25/BU44R6ES62.DTL

[Bitwit1234]

1. AND get this....there was extra expense because the whole shebang

was moved to Camp David. Why couldn't the piece of crapola have it done in a hospital...say Walter Reed where the rest of federal government go.

[Lisa]

2. this cartoonist nails it!

[jmowreader]

3. I don't mind so much...he is (ostensibly) the president

I want President Schweitzer to be able to get free colonoscopies, so we're going to have to allow Dipshit to get them too.

Besides, they discovered that he was dividing and removed his five offspring before they got dangerous. Can you imagine having SIX George Bushes running around all making contradicting signing statements?