It would cut reimbursements to hospitals, doctors, and drug companies, and as a result all who work in the medical field, from nurses and nurse practitioners to therapists and technicians, would see their incomes decline. Meanwhile, the president says nothing about workers in another sector of the medical field and one that is more highly compensated than physicians or hospital administrators. He says nothing about the abuses of trial lawyers, not in this speech or in any other statement during his entire political career.

It is remarkably disingenuous for Mr. Obama to declare, in the high-sounding but hollow rhetoric in which he excels, the need for shared responsibility, when that respons...

It would cut reimbursements to hospitals, doctors, and drug companies, and as a result all who work in the medical field, from nurses and nurse practitioners to therapists and technicians, would see their incomes decline. Meanwhile, the president says nothing about workers in another sector of the medical field and one that is more highly compensated than physicians or hospital administrators. He says nothing about the abuses of trial lawyers, not in this speech or in any other statement during his entire political career.

It is remarkably disingenuous for Mr. Obama to declare, in the high-sounding but hollow rhetoric in which he excels, the need for shared responsibility, when that responsibility excludes every one of his political backers. "We look out for one another," he declaimed. "That's what makes us the United States of America." Have you ever run across a trial lawyer who "looked after" the interests of the decent, hard-working physicians whom he has sued? I may be mistaken, but I do not believe that John Edwards, who made a great deal of money suing the medical industry, has announced his intention to distribute his vast personal fortune to the public for the purpose of looking out for others. Nor has Michelle Obama, so far as I know, donated to the collective good the hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary and bonuses that she was awarded at approximately the same time that the Senate, in which her husband then served, passed a bill favorable to her employer, University of Chicago Medical Center.