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Obama: ‘If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Keep Your Doctor’ (Text of speech to AMA)
Wall Street Journal ^ | 06/15/2009 | WSJ, Barack Obama

Posted on 06/15/2009 12:38:37 PM PDT by iowamark

President Barack Obama’s address to the annual meeting of the American Medical Association today didn’t break new ground, but attempted to assure doctors and their patients that his prescription for overhauling the health care system would be good for them. For patients, he made a sweeping pledge that “no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what. My view is that health care reform should be guided by a simple principle: fix what’s broken and build on what works.” And according the prepared remarks, he promised doctors “we can build a health care system that allows you to be physicians instead of administrators and accountants.” For a live blog of AMA President Nancy Nielsen and President-Elect J. James Rohack responding to the Obama speech and answering questions, please check out the Heath Blog.

Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery American Medical Association Chicago, Illinois June 15, 2009 From the moment I took office as President, the central challenge we have confronted as a nation has been the need to lift ourselves out of the worst recession since World War II.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 111th; agenda; ama; bho44; bhofascism; bhohealthcare; communism; corruption; democrats; economy; fascism; fubo; healthcare; liar; marxism; obama; obamacare; physicians; rationedhealthcare; socialism; socializedmedicine; thekenyan
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To: iowamark

The doctors hate paperwork and insurance companies so he’s just telling them what they want to hear. He’s lying. Why will a doctor dealing with either the government or the government and private insurers have any less to deal with?

In fact, they will have to “squeeze in” the 50 million patients he wants to add to their burden.


21 posted on 06/15/2009 12:46:32 PM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: iowamark

NO, I can’t keep my Doctor. My Doctor will be quitting her practice if obamacare passes.

VirginiaMom


22 posted on 06/15/2009 12:46:53 PM PDT by VirginiaMom
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To: SERKIT

Hey - no makin fun o’ massa ‘bama. He goin’ take care o us real good.


23 posted on 06/15/2009 12:47:32 PM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: iowamark

‘If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Keep Your Doctor’


Other Marxists wouldn’t let you keep your own doctor! He’s much nicer!


24 posted on 06/15/2009 12:47:57 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: iowamark

Most of my doctors are not that young. I bet they’ll retire pronto rather than be part of Obamacare. So where’s my choice when they doctors I want are no longer practicing?


25 posted on 06/15/2009 12:48:20 PM PDT by randita
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To: iowamark

gee....I hope he’s not “guessing wrong” again......


26 posted on 06/15/2009 12:49:43 PM PDT by sfvgto (Dear Congress, my name is Jimmie....gimmie, gimmie, gimmie)
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To: SERKIT

POSOTUS


27 posted on 06/15/2009 12:50:47 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: iowamark
Lets just take "parental leave" as an example. When the Democrats first proposed then demanded it, it was unpaid and I think the limit was two weeks. I remember the Republicans fighting it because it was just "the camel's nose under the tent". The Democrats laughed and scoffed and called the Republicans "anti-family".

Today it's leave that has to be paid for by the employer and now includes, not just mothers caring for their newborns, but fathers, children caring for their elderly parents, parents attending school teacher conferences and the last I heard the Democrats were trying for owners with sick pets. And the time has gone to six weeks.

28 posted on 06/15/2009 12:50:47 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: kromike
Obama: ‘If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Keep Your Doctor’

I like my hard earned money....can I keep THAT?

29 posted on 06/15/2009 12:50:53 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: iowamark

Govt. health plan competing with private physicians will drive the private physicians out of business quickly with lower patient volume and lower reimbursements. Over 40% of MDs are more than 55 yrs old. Replacements from medical schools are inadequate, and the physicians produced are burdoned with educational debt that will not be able to be serviced.


30 posted on 06/15/2009 12:51:01 PM PDT by givemELL (Does Taiwan Meet the Criteria to Qualify as an "Overseas Territory of the United States"? by Richar)
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To: DoughtyOne
Yeah, keep your doctor. We’ll just write regulations so tight that Dr. Jeckyl will be Dr. Hyde when we’re done with him.

Lol! Hillarious post, but you make your point very well.

31 posted on 06/15/2009 12:53:27 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: iowamark
If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor.

Right up until he/she quits practicing, because the government has put him/her out of business. We already have numerous doctors who either refuse to take Medicare/Medicaid patients or have quit practicing because of how little Medicare/Medicaid reimburses them for their work. And we want a system that pays on that scale for ALL patients? Yeah, that's going to thrill the really good doctors, not to mention make hordes of our best and brightest want to go to medical school.

32 posted on 06/15/2009 12:53:45 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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To: iowamark
Obama: ‘If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Keep Your Doctor’

Oh, Dear Leader you are so good to us! We grovel in your great presence! What a wonderful and benevolent Dear Leader you are!

33 posted on 06/15/2009 12:53:45 PM PDT by Allegra ( Stand up for FREEDOM, Iran.)
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To: iowamark

"Under my new government health plan, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. We can all keep our doctors. Yeah, and it won't cost you a thing. It'll be free! Yeah! That's the ticket!"

34 posted on 06/15/2009 12:57:06 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (I asked my broker what he's buying today. He replied: "Canned food and ammunition.")
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To: iowamark

Something I never thought I would hear from a president in the USA is “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor,” as if any American should ever need that permission or assurance. It’s disgusting. 0bama is a disgusting, Communist pig.


35 posted on 06/15/2009 12:58:38 PM PDT by pallis
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To: iowamark

Sure, you can keep your doctor, we’ll just pay him nothing so he can’t do the diagnostics or procedures you need.

If they pass ANY plan that interferes with my right to private practice doctors I will sue for violation of Constitutional rights. The US government has no Constitutional authority to run a medical indurance program nor interfere with my rights to a doctor. Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, etc, all have no right to even exist.


36 posted on 06/15/2009 12:59:08 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: iowamark
Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said, "one can't believe impossible things."

"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen.

"When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day."Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Lewis Carroll

37 posted on 06/15/2009 12:59:41 PM PDT by La Lydia (.)
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To: OB1kNOb

Under ObamaCare, students who get in to Medical School will do so because they are good party members. Ah the joys of Soviet Style incompetent medicine. Butcher who can’t be sued because they are aparatchtiks.


38 posted on 06/15/2009 1:01:50 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: iowamark
"Obama: ‘If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Keep Your Doctor’ "

Hey, that's mighty white of you Bambi. I'll believe it when I see it.

39 posted on 06/15/2009 1:06:05 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: iowamark

Obama has SAID a lot of things since his first round of campaigning.
So far....all lies.


40 posted on 06/15/2009 1:06:46 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (The plan... 0 in power for life. At least that's what they told him.)
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