PEORIA -- When Dr. Richard Macdonald, a retired podiatrist, received a nasty Obama attack piece from the American Family Association of Tupelo, Miss., written by retired corporate vice president Lou Pritchett of Procter & Gamble, he couldn’t resist responding.
Pritchett says Obama scares him. Here’s Macdonald’s reply:
Who wouldn't be scared when one has been on corporate welfare all of his career.
Mr. Lou Pritchett didn't have to pay his health insurance with after tax dollars like I did for all those years I was a solo practitioner.
Proctor & Gamble, along with all those "Buy America Companies" that use pre-tax dollars to buy health benefits, therefore avoid paying $180 billion in taxes. Instead, those tax-avoid-paying companies under his CEO leadership model told me how to treat my patients under their "private non-government insurance plans."
Companies like his took the attitude it is easier to cut off a leg than save a foot. Companies like his dictated to me that they wouldn't pay me $500 to save a diabetic foot and send the patient back to work, even though the company's whole medical department agreed with my standard of care.
The HR department was proud to use a medical benefit's technicality to take the patient out of my hands to cut off his leg, and produced a blue alert while going to one of those expensive high tech machines for continuation of the patient's corporate designated continuum of care.
The patient cost a Fortune 500 company almost a month in cardiac intensive care and then the patient died, over non-payment of $500.
People in Mr. Pritchett's pay grade with their huge compensation of stock options, bonuses and golden parachutes just can't comprehended the simple common person's struggles against bankruptcy over medical bills.
This "my Proctor & Gamble driver always got a turkey for Thanksgiving and a good Christmas bonus" attitude allows Mr. Pritchett to write these types of letters which get a half a million internet hits of support.
The drive through mastectomy patient is not his concern as Mr Pritchett doesn't wear a D cup brassier.
Besides he now has single pay government insurance which allows him to pick his own doctor without interference. We call it ‘Medicare.’
Lou should burn his Medicare card but that would mean he would have to pay for equal coverage out of his own pocket, but of course P&G would pick up his premium.
Add his company's covered Medicare supplement healthcare payments and full prescription drug payment, and Mr Pritchett doesn't have the cognizant ability to wonder why 70% people, as of today’s polls don't feel sorry for him and but want what he has.
I guess he became a CEO by Murphy's Law, and was elevated to his level of incompetence.
As Cal Thomas column said in the Peoria Journal Star, "A one-sided debate isn't news, its advertising."
Proctor & Gamble is probably the biggest advertiser in the world, so Cal Thomas and Mr. Pritchett are on the same page against healthcare coverage for 100% of the American people.
Lou Pritchett worries about the cost but doesn't complain about his retirement benefit's cost to the stockholders of P&G.
Both Mr. Thomas and Mr. Pritchett have no sympathy for those barefooted individuals who can't pull themselves up by their unaffordable boots while their corporate welfare state of paid benefits includes "the best healthcare in the world."
Dr. Richard G. Macdonald
Washington, IL
Here are two links to stories of Peoria residents regarding lack of medical insurance:
http://stories.barackobama.com/healthcare/stories/103336
http://stories.barackobama.com/healthcare/stories/77459
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