Jake Trapper and ABC Henchmen working hard to discredit Obama's health plan ahead of tonight's forum

[jefferson_dem]

Figures. ABC is trying to prove they can be tough guys after the repug goon squad intimidated them for their "infomercial." Check out this loaded write-up from Trapper et al.

EXCLUSIVE: President Obama Defends Right to Choose Best Care
In ABC News Health Care Forum, President Answers Questions About Reform
By JAKE TAPPER and KAREN TRAVERS
June 24, 2009—



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.

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.

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.

Gibson asked the president if it doesn't make sense to decide what the limitations will be on options in any health-care reform proposal before voting on it.

"That's what people are afraid of," Gibson said.

The president said he understood the American people "know they're living with the devil, but the devil they know instead of the devil they don't."

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.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/HealthCare/story?id=7919991&page=1

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Recommended - ABC News is #2 to FoxNews in conservative bias...

:thumbsdown:

P.S.
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[Thrill]

2. I said when it was annoucned Gibson was going it. There would for sure be Repuke plants

[asjr]

5. Charlie is the Republicans

adversarial plant. I see a foglike outhouse smell hovering above his head.

[Thrill]

3. Someone from Pappy Bush's administration got a chance to ask a question?

I don't even need to watch this bullshit. I thought regular Americans were going to be asking the questions.

[Cha]

4. Jake Smirk Tapper makes me sick

..is he still pouting over Pres Obama throwing his Gotcha back in his face at the presser?

[and-justice-for-all]

6. Obama, however, didn't directly answer the question. ??

Really? I am pretty confident that he did answer it, they just heard what the wanted to hear.

[Oregone]

7. Limits?

What are they talking about? Is that another word for rationing?

[Pirate Smile]

8. Because insurance companies aren't doing that right now.

[jefferson_dem]

9. ABC Tweeting the BS - lying about what we just heard. Amazing...

Obama says Mayo Clinic is doing it right - "outstanding care." all we have to do is replicate it and problem solved
less than 10 seconds ago from TweetDeck

"Uniquely American plan," Obama says. between socialized medicine and completely free market.
3 minutes ago from web

"everyone understands we can't keep doing what we're doing," says Obama. no straw men tonight?
4 minutes ago from TweetDeck

would Obama give up on some treatments for his own family? not answering directly - wants to make it about "broader issue"
5 minutes ago from web

re show of hands - Obama says "let's stop now" -- but those hands were for reform, not necessarily Obama's reform
8 minutes ago from TweetDeck

and we're on - @ABC #healthreform special starting now - will be blogging here, fact-checking on The Note blog http://bit.ly/5trer
12 minutes ago from TweetDeck

http://twitter.com/thenote

[O is 44]

10. I know hate is a very strong word...

but I can not stand this guy Jake Tapper, he tries his hardest to stay on Rush's good side with the constant spewing of utterly stupid sh*t.