Obama will get the best health care possible for his family, even if you can’t
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I’m surprised he didn’t just tell an outright lie during the ABC Obamathon, he’s so good at it. But then again, he does have to go home to the First Lady. Saying he’d deny her the best health care ever may ruin their next date night.
I won’t link to ABC News because I’m boycotting them. Michelle Malkin (via memeorandum) posted an excerpt. ABC allowed two skeptical physicians to ask the president questions. Emphasis mine.
President Obama struggled to explain today whether his health care reform proposals would force normal Americans to make sacrifices that wealthier, more powerful people – like the president himself – wouldn’t face.
…Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist and researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said that elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick they will be able to afford the best care available, even if it’s not provided by insurance.
Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn’t seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he’s proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get.
The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if “it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother I always want them to get the very best care.”
“There’s a whole bunch of care that’s being provided that every study, that every bit of evidence that we have indicates may not be making us healthier,” he said.
Gibson interjected that often patients don’t know what will work until they get every test they can.
“Often times we know what makes sense and what doesn’t,” the president responded, making a push for evidence-based medicine.
…Another neurologist, Dr. John Corboy of the University of Colorado Health Science Center, asked the president, “What can you do to convince the American public that there actually are limits to what we can pay for with our American health care system and if there are going to be limits, who’s going to design the system and who’s going to enforce the rules for a system like that? “
Obama, however, didn’t directly answer the question.
Of course he didn’t directly answer the question, and surely the All Barack Channel didn’t press him to do so.
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