OBAMA: Yes, the president lied

Liar, liar — Obama’s pants on fire. We all need to see how many more lies our president will say in the next two debates. I know one definite lie told by Obama in the first Romney-Obama debate. As a retired medical doctor, certified urologist, U.S. Air Force veteran doctor with more than 40 years of medical experience, I know Obama lied!

Do you know that in our country about 40,000 men die each year from prostate cancer? It’s the No. 2 cause of male cancer deaths. It’s not just an “old man’s disease” because it can (uncommonly) occur in boys as young as age 9.

PSA testing (prostate specific androgen) has helped drop the number of deaths by 44 percent. Urologists know that the PSA test is not 100 percent accurate. Yet PSA testing has saved thousands of lives over the past 30 years. “Obamacare” — the 2,700-plus page bill voted into law only by Democratic congressmen and signed into law by President Obama, was never read or understood by most of them. (See Rep. Nancy Pelosi.)

This Obamacare law is already functioning and has set up a 15-person panel (non-M.D. and M.D., but no urologists). The panel decided to stop paying for PSA testing of Medicare patients and veterans. Why? Because they decided that the test was not helpful in saving thousands of lives.

The lie: In the first debate Obama clearly stated that these “doctor panels” would not make the rules for the medical tests, drugs and treatment that your doctor decides you need. For facts see A.U.A. (American Urologic Association) and William Catalona, M.D., University Medical School-Chicago, September 2012. Check this all out if you think I’m lying. Women: Obamacare plans to limit mammograms.

Now vote in this most important election. Get your family and friends in other states to vote, but not for the amateur liar.

NORMAN LEFFLER, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Hayden