Even Obama Doesn't Want Obamacare

According to GCI.net, Obama was asked by a doctor on last night's government-owned TV station "to promise that his wife and daughters would only get the services allowed under a new government insurance plan he's proposing."

Obama merely answered "If it was his wife, daughters or grandmother, the president said, he'd "always want them to get the very best care."

Nice. Another liberal example of do what I say but not what I do. Obama wants to use government-run healthcare as a way to cram socialism down our throats but he wouldn't use the same government-run healthcare that we would be required to.

I love hypocrisy in the morning. Get's my blood-pressure right up there.

I can't wait to see what the ratings were for this informercial.

Oh and as Fox News pointed out and you can find the quote here at the bottom of page two at this ABC-published transcript, Obama also described exactly what we've been saying all along, government-run healthcare is rationed healthcare.

I don't want bureaucracies making those decisions, but understand that those decisions are already being made in one way or another. If they're not being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they're being made by private insurers.

We don't always make those decisions explicitly. We often make those decisions by just letting people run out of money or making the deductibles so high or the out-of-pocket expenses so onerous that they just can't afford the care.

And all we're suggesting -- and we're not going to solve every difficult problem in terms of end-of-life care. A lot of that is going to have to be, we as a culture and as a society starting to make better decisions within our own families and for ourselves.

But what we can do is make sure that at least some of the waste that exists in the system that's not making anybody's mom better, that is loading up on additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care, that at least we can let doctors know and your mom know that, you know what? Maybe this isn't going to help. Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller. (italics mine)

And those kinds of decisions between doctors and patients, and making sure that our incentives are not preventing those good decision, and that -- that doctors and hospitals all are aligned for patient care, that's something we can achieve

. The key to understanding Obama is not to let his surface talk lull you into complacency. He's repeating patient-doctor relationship but there are key words he also uses like "evidence" which is a reference to rationing, etc.

The part I put in italics is the most chilling. He is basically saying why fix the problem with expensive surgery when you can just suffer the symptoms with painkillers. That is rationing, friends. And if you don't fight it, you deserve to suffer under it as well.