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Ezekiel Emanuel: If You Want To Pay More For Your Doctor, You Can Do That
RCP / Fox News Sunday ^ | 12/8/2013

Posted on 12/08/2013 12:14:25 PM PST by Republican Wildcat

CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: President Obama famously promised, if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. Doesn't that turn out to be just as false, just as misleading, as his promise about if you like your plan you can keep your plan? Isn't it a fact, sir, that a number, most, in fact, of the Obamacare health plans that are being offered on the exchanges exclude a number of doctors and hospitals to lower costs?

EZEKIEL EMANUEL: The president never said you were going to have unlimited choice of any doctor in the country you want to go to.

WALLACE: Wait. No. He asked a question. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Did he not say that, sir?

EMANUEL: He didn't say you could have unlimited choice.

WALLACE: It's a simple yes or no question. Didn't he say if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor?

EMANUEL: Yes. But look, if you want to pay more for an insurance company that covers your doctor, you can do that. This is a matter of choice. We know in all sorts of places you pay more for certain -- for a wider range of choices or wider range of benefits. The issue isn't the selective networks. People keep saying, 'Oh, the problem is you're going to have a selective network.'

WALLACE: Well, if you lose your doctor or lose your hospital --

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ezekiel; ezekielemanuel; ezkillemanuel; obamacare; obamacaredoctors; youcankeepit
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1 posted on 12/08/2013 12:14:25 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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The transcript doesn’t do this justice - the video shows just how little the left cares about the problems and pain Obamacare is causing real Americans.


2 posted on 12/08/2013 12:16:27 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

I’m looking forward to next years elections. These bass-turds WILL pay!


3 posted on 12/08/2013 12:16:50 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

If Emanuel had been asked the same question on CNN his answer - which was a lie - would have stood.

It’s why no one trusts CNN.

And MSNBC? They wouldn’t have had the integrity to even ask the question.

Good job Wallace.


4 posted on 12/08/2013 12:18:05 PM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: Republican Wildcat
I tuned in just to watch that smug bastard make that statement.

He should be sacked just for this interview alone. Of course, he won't simply because he is a perfect example of his boss!

Smug bastards one and all with the smuggest heading the top of the line!

5 posted on 12/08/2013 12:20:53 PM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: Republican Wildcat

So, the promise of Obamacare was really lower choice or higher cost. Now, why didn’t they say that when were trying to sell it?


6 posted on 12/08/2013 12:22:12 PM PST by fhayek
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To: GOPJ
"Good job Wallace."

Why? I cannot see from the transcript that Wallace called him out at all.

7 posted on 12/08/2013 12:22:58 PM PST by I am Richard Brandon
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To: Republican Wildcat

bfl


8 posted on 12/08/2013 12:23:28 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: Republican Wildcat

More lies from a “progressive”, liberal. Lies are all they have. They never give you a straight answer to a question. This guy is a sleaze


9 posted on 12/08/2013 12:25:44 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If you think signing up for ObamaCare was fun, wait until you try to use it.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

So here we go with the predictable equivocating.

“Oh, you misunderstood. He didn’t say that, he said this”.

Doublespeak tactics.

The more they have this fruit on TV, the more damage he does to his little project. But he’s so impressed with the sound of his own voice, he just goes right on doing it.

A nut who doesn’t know when to quit.


10 posted on 12/08/2013 12:25:52 PM PST by Regulator
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To: zerosix

I saw it too.All I could think was what a prick.


11 posted on 12/08/2013 12:27:04 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Republican Wildcat

A doctor stands in the middle of the room, patients sitting in chairs encircle him. “Okay, you are here to tell me about your problems” he tells them “Then we can all assess the situation and vote on which of you is more deserving of treatment”

....


12 posted on 12/08/2013 12:30:43 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: fhayek
I think the real goal was to have leftists as gatekeepers. They get to decide who is worth the expense. Their biggest mistake is doing this before disarming the population. I predict the leftists are going to get some health "care" handed back them.

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13 posted on 12/08/2013 12:31:51 PM PST by MtnClimber (A utopia without freedom is just a fancy name for prison. - Dean Kalahar)
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To: zerosix
Recall from another similar moment - "it all depends on what is is" - rings just a true today as then.
14 posted on 12/08/2013 12:34:32 PM PST by jamaksin
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To: Regulator

blackwhite-

The ability to accept whatever “truth” the party puts out, no matter how absurd it may be.

Orwell described it as “...loyal willingness to say black is white when party discipline demands this.

It also means the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know black is white, and forget that one has ever believed the contrary.”


15 posted on 12/08/2013 12:34:39 PM PST by digger48
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To: Farmer Dean
Ah, you clearly explain this guy.

I've heard of "God complexes" that some physicians develop but this guy even elevates that to a higher level.

Honestly, I've never, ever witnessed such obnoxious smugness on display on a TV "news" show!

I certainly hope some political media advisor for the GOP or some TEA party candidate captures this interview and runs it over, and over, and over until his/her dimocRAT opponent gives up in frustration!

A video of Emanuel making these remarks should be kept and shown each and every time liberal goes out to taut the "benefits of Obamacare!"

16 posted on 12/08/2013 12:40:33 PM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: I am Richard Brandon
Wallace did and he was incredulous at Emanuel's remarks too.

Wallace can be pretty smug himself but the fact that this guy sat within a few feet from Wallace and responded as he did, astounded even Wallace!

17 posted on 12/08/2013 12:43:03 PM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: Republican Wildcat

these damn snotty know-it-all progressive liberal American Jews . They all need to go spend a year on a kibbutz in Israel . No money , few comforts , just shut up and do real work for awhile .


18 posted on 12/08/2013 12:46:37 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Republican Wildcat

“We know in all sorts of places you pay more for certain — for a wider range of choices or wider range of benefits.”

Yes, that sort of place is the United States of America but you people are trying to take our choice and freedoms away with the false narrative of security.

How about: If You Want Socialized Medicine, You Can Do That—MOVE.


19 posted on 12/08/2013 12:46:44 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Not only can you not keep your doctor, it’s becoming more and more apparent your doctor can’t even keep you!


20 posted on 12/08/2013 12:47:00 PM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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