Obama gives GOP a Spock-like reprimand on public option criticism: "That's not logical."

[usregimechange]

"If private insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality health care, if they tell us that they're offering a good deal, then why is it that the government -- which they say can't run anything -- suddenly is going to drive them out of business? That's not logical."

-President Obama, on a public health care option - today.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Press-Conference-by-the-President-6-23-09/

[sandnsea]

1. He also challenged Medicare Advantage

“What I’ve said is, if we’re going to spend that much money, then it’s going to be largely funded through reallocating dollars that are already in the health care system but aren’t being spent well. If we’re spending $177 billion over 10 years to subsidize insurance companies under Medicare Advantage, when there’s no showing that people are healthier using that program than the regular Medicare program, well, that’s not a good deal for taxpayers. And we’re going to take that money and we’re going to use it to provide better care at a cheaper cost to the American people. So that’s point number one.”

[zeemike]

2. At some point we are going to need to tell the insurance

People that we don't give a damn if they go out of business...if they can't come up with a busness model that works in a completive market they will just have to die. They can take all the billions they made over the last 30 years and go do some honest work with it.

Here is the door and don't let it hit you in the ass on the way out.

[Skittles]

3. great response

keep it up, Obama :thumbsup:

[Cha]

4. Was it Jake Tapper who said

something about Spock when Obama said it wasn't logical? Like that was his great comeback?

And, Obama said something like.."you're not making fun of my ears are you?":)

The great thing about this is..because of all the talk about "logic"..the quote will get out there more than it would have..

"If private insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality health care, if they tell us that they're offering a good deal, then why is it that the government -- which they say can't run anything -- suddenly is going to drive them out of business? That's not logical."

Leonard Nimoy is smiling somewhere:D

[damonm]

5. "Leonard Nimoy is smiling somewhere"...

[Cha]

7. I'll take it!

That's as close as we're going to get:)

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. I thought that was wonderful!

Beam me up baby!

[Autumn]

8. Now that is one hell

of a smack down.:fistbump:

[usregimechange]

9. Got to love it, it is logical

[Autumn]

10. Totally logical

I get warm fuzzies just thinking about it.:rofl: That was just perfect.

[eridani]

11. I heard that on NPR. A friend who heard both NPR and CBS--

--said that CBS cut off the "that's not logical" part. Why do we allow them to do this shit?

[Downtown Hound]

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