President Obama:

doctors a lot of times are forced to make decisions based on the fee payment schedule that’s out there…you come in and you’ve got a bad sore throat, or your child has a bad sore throat or has repeated sore throats, the doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself, you know what, I make a lot more money if I take this kid’s tonsils out.

This seems not only offensive, but ignorant to boot. As the NIH has studied, family practice physicians refer their patients to otolaryngologists for tonsillectomies.

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