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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...


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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1 posted on 06/15/2009 12:38:37 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: iowamark
Obama Tries to Assure Doctors on His Health Initiatives
2 posted on 06/15/2009 12:39:51 PM PDT by iowamark (certified by Michael Steele as "ugly and incendiary")
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To: iowamark
"I don't want to run car companies"
"I don't want to run banks"
...

LIAR.

3 posted on 06/15/2009 12:40:44 PM PDT by kromike
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To: iowamark

Now, how many folks in the room believed this line?


4 posted on 06/15/2009 12:41:51 PM PDT by RexBeach
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To: iowamark

Yeah, keep your doctor. We’ll just write regulations so tight that Dr. Jeckyl will be Dr. Hyde when we’re done with him. People who sucker for this will get precisely what they deserve.


5 posted on 06/15/2009 12:41:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama post 09/11. The U.S. is sorry, we are a Muslim nation, and we surrender.)
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To: kromike

Of course you can...And you can also pay more as private insurers dwindle down to a precious few.

It’s what Obama is NOT saying that is dishonest.


6 posted on 06/15/2009 12:42:02 PM PDT by plangent
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To: kromike

Of course you can...And you can also pay more as private insurers dwindle down to a precious few.

It’s what Obama is NOT saying that is dishonest.


7 posted on 06/15/2009 12:42:07 PM PDT by plangent
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To: iowamark
....we will keep this promise: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor....

LODY-LODY I THANKS YA MASSAH!!!!

You p-o-s!

8 posted on 06/15/2009 12:42:07 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: iowamark
Obama is a LIAR!!!
9 posted on 06/15/2009 12:42:13 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kromike

Of course you can...And you can also pay more as private insurers dwindle down to a precious few.

It’s what Obama is NOT saying that is dishonest.


10 posted on 06/15/2009 12:42:13 PM PDT by plangent
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To: iowamark

He says whatever is convenient, but Obama is a damn liar.

I may like my doctor what I require is that when my wife had cancer we got to see the experts of our choice on a very fast track, I liked them too but they weren’t “our doctor” they were specialists.

Telling me I can “keep” my doctor has nothing to do with rationing, having less advanced equipment, etc.


11 posted on 06/15/2009 12:42:23 PM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: SERKIT

LMFAO!

I was going to post something very similar to that.


12 posted on 06/15/2009 12:42:41 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: iowamark

Given the known statistic that this Marxist lies more than he tells the truth, you can imagine what you would really end up with. This is just more power-madness, more Marxism, and more destruction of the once great, powerful and successful America he is so rabidly destroying.

How long will even the DemoRats let this go on???


13 posted on 06/15/2009 12:42:45 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: DoughtyOne

...sadly, but sadly so will se, and we won’t deserve it.


14 posted on 06/15/2009 12:42:51 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama post 09/11. The U.S. is sorry, we are a Muslim nation, and we surrender.)
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To: iowamark
My doctor is pretty good, but he's a guy, and I want to be seen by a super hot doctor, like the ones on T.V.

Did he say anything about that? Specifically, plans under way for me to get mine?

15 posted on 06/15/2009 12:43:41 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: iowamark
What Obama means is, “Sure, keep your non-government doctor...until he's put out of business when many of his patients flee to doctors being paid by Uncle Sam.”
16 posted on 06/15/2009 12:43:52 PM PDT by utahagen
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To: iowamark

If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor?....

I don’t believe a damn thing he says!


17 posted on 06/15/2009 12:44:36 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: iowamark

If he had not before, I am certain that today my Dr withdrew from Medicare.


18 posted on 06/15/2009 12:45:03 PM PDT by sybilll
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To: iowamark

Of course you can. However, your doctor will probably leave the profession in a year or two. You’ll love your new federally-employed PA, though.


19 posted on 06/15/2009 12:45:22 PM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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>>No one will take it away. No matter what.

Dear Employees, in light of the affordable government-run health care options reenacted, USCO’s responsibility to its shareholders requires us to terminate our private coverage you have been receiving effective Jan 1st, 2010. We will be happy to assist you in making the transition in what will improve your health and the company’s health as we focus on our core business yada yada yada Obama’s a huge freaking (but good) liar...


20 posted on 06/15/2009 12:46:19 PM PDT by epluribus_2
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