“Hi. I’m Linda Douglass. I’m the communications director for the White House Office of Health Reform, and one of my jobs is to keep track of all the disinformation that’s out there about health-insurance reform. And there are a lot of very deceiving headlines out there right now, such as this one — take a look at this one. This one says, ‘Uncovered Video: Obama Explains How His Health Care Plan Will Eliminate PRIVATE Insurance.’However, Obama very clearly wants a single payer system. Obama has done nothing to suggest that he's not moving towards single payer with his proposals and the current health care bills making their way through Congress.
“Well, nothing can be farther from the truth. You know the people who always try to SCARE people whenever you try to bring them health-insurance reform are at it again. And they’re taking sentences and phrases out of context, and they’re cobbling them together to leave a VERY false impression. The truth is that the president has been talking to the American people a LOT about health-insurance reform and what is at stake for them.
“So what happens is that because he’s talking to the American people so much, there are people out there with a computer and a lot of free time, and they take a phrase here and there — they simply cherry-pick and put it together, and make it sound like he’s saying something that he didn’t really say.”
Obama thinks that single payer health care is the way to go, and even if it takes several years to achieve the changeover, it will be worth it.
But don't take my word for it. Listen to Obama himself:
He wants single payer, universal health care, and is more than willing to shift the entire health care system to government health care within 10-15 years. However, the current proposals would actually result in nearly everyone with private health care being shifted into government health care within one year when their current policies are updated and adjusted with their periodic review.
Linda Douglass very clearly chooses to ignore the multiple references to single payer and Obama's desire to see government health care imposed. This isn't a scare tactic on the part of opponents to Obama's health care plans. It's revealing Obama's policies for what they are - and exposing Obama's lies, deceit, and the deception by him and his allies in pushing forward a plan that will not improve the quality of care in the United States and will not save anyone any money, and which the CBO has found will end up costing far more than the Administration is willing to concede.
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