 merrie says: Like cheeseburgers and cigarettes and alcohol and cars that drive faster than 25 miles per hour? 3. Economics 101 FAIL "Having a public plan out there that also shows that maybe if you take some of the profit motive out, maybe if you are reducing some of the administrative costs, that you can get an even better deal, that's going to incentivize the private sector to do even better." 2. I Don't Know Anything, But I Know the Police Acted Stupidly On the professor arrested following a confrontation with a police officer after he broke into his own house: "Skip Gates is a friend, so I may be a little biased here. I don't know all the facts. ... "Now, I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly." 1. Doctors Want to Take Your Kids' Tonsils For Profit Again, another answer unrelated to any question asked: “Right now, doctors a lot of times are forced to make decisions based on the fee payment schedule that’s out there. So if they’re looking and you come in and you’ve got a bad sore throat or your child has a bad sore throat or has repeated sore throats, the doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself, “You know what? I make a lot more money if I take this kid’s tonsils out.” In all, he had some very clear villains in tonight’s performance: doctors, insurers, Republicans, and the Cambridge police department. A full transcript of the press conference is available here. Posted by: Gabriel Malor [url=http://www.suitably... Transcript of Obama Prime-Time News Conference CQ Transcriptions Following is the transcript of President Obama's news conference Wednesday night, which lasted about an hour. |
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