Posted on 08/16/2009 7:07:49 PM PDT by earlJam
Aug 16 2009, 9:11 pm by Marc Ambinder
Administration Official: "Sebelius Misspoke."
An administration official said tonight that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius "misspoke" when she told CNN this morning that a government run health insurance option "is not an essential part" of reform. This official asked not to be identified in exchange for providing clarity about the intentions of the President...
A second official, Linda Douglass, director of health reform communications for the administration, said that President Obama ... had not backed away from that belief, and that he still wanted to see a public option in the final bill.
"Nothing has changed.," she said. "The President has always said that what is essential that health insurance reform lower costs, ensure that there are affordable options for all Americans and increase choice and competition in the health insurance market. He believes that the public option is the best way to achieve these goals."
A third White House official, via e-mail, said that Sebelius didn't misspeak. "The media misplayed it," the third official said.
On Saturday, Mr. Obama defended the public plan before an audience in Colorado Springs. At the same time, he said that the government option was not the single critical element of reform, pointing instead to the provisions preventing insurance companies from discriminating against people, requiring them to offer plans to everyone, and capping premium increases....
"The public option, whether we have it or we don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform. This is just one sliver of it. One aspect of it," Obama said.
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.theatlantic.com ...
WHAT????
The media misplayed it?? What does that mean?
Heh. Someone is not pleased. Not pleased at all.
Trial balloon went over like lead....Nobody liked it.
Who is going to get the dead fish from Rahm this week...
Sebelius is under DUBUS.
Told you all. Did you all really think for a second Obama would remove public option..come on, we all know what he wants, he wants a single payer option, just like he said a few years ago on VIDEO
This just gets better and better. It reminds me of that old song on the rout of another enemy: “And they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles, and they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go. They ran so fast, the hounds couldn’t catch ‘em, on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.”
When Obama gets in a pickle, he orders his team to cause confusion. IMO, they think that people will get so frustrated from all the confusion that they'll let their guard down. They're trying to wear us down so we'll defer, submit, cave in.
Obama, doubletalkin' chief snake oil salesman. The Chicago Way totally sucks.
Sebelius, meet Mr. Bus.
I've heard some doublespeak before, but nothing like this.
How can the media "misplay" something? What DOES that mean??
For those that didn’t see it...here is the interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdqOrAGKlDE
Not sure how the media misplayed it.
They have to recalibrate their reports.
Just imagine when some other government bureaucrat “misspokes” about the amount of treatment your heart doctor will be authorized to give to you depending on your age and party affiliation. ObamaCare isn’t going to be pretty. You go in for a triple bypass and come out with just a set of license plates or a book of stamps. Nice.
This current administration is either smart as hell at utilizing media ploys or one big frakin’ joke.
Colorado Springs!?!?!? I don’t think he was here. Believe me, we would have been there in protest.
The article looks sloppy.
It’s the freaking Benny Hill Show.
Does this circus have a Ringmaster?
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