Even when he gets the cards stacked in his favor, he blows it.

“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.
Obama on how to drive down health care costs while providing adequate coverage.

The probing questions came from two skeptical neurologists during ABC News’ special on health care reform, “Questions for the President: Prescription for America,” anchored from the White House by Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson.

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.”

Well there you have it. Just as every other liberal plan for “universal healthcare”, it’s only going to be “nuts to the people” if it gets enacted.

Just as has been pointed out, this plan will be exclusionary and discretionary. Yet even more ominous is that it won’t be free. During the same broadcast Obama again hinted at his intention of taxing health benefits – which he would mandate by the way.

“You went after him for suggesting that we tax that money,” Gibson said to Obama.

“I continue to believe that it would be the wrong way to go for us to eliminate the deduction, or the exclusion, on healthcare benefits,” Obama replied. “That essentially taxes current benefits.”
“You went after him for suggesting that we tax that money,” Gibson said to Obama.

“I continue to believe that it would be the wrong way to go for us to eliminate the deduction, or the exclusion, on healthcare benefits,” Obama replied. “That essentially taxes current benefits.”