Health Care Elitism From Obama

From the health care infomercial on ABC last night:

The probing questions came from two skeptical neurologists during ABC News' special on health care reform, "Questions for the President: Prescription for America," anchored from the White House by Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson.

Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist and researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said that elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick, they will be able to afford the best care available, even if it's not provided by insurance.

Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn't seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he's proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get.

The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if "it's my family member, if it's my wife, if it's my children, if it's my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.

Emphasis mine.

Of course he wouldn't make such a pledge because he knows what will happen to American health care should the government control it and he knows it will not be the best in the world anymore for him or his family. Instead he's willing to sentence the rest of us to a world where we have to beg and plead with bureaucrats for simple procedures we now receive upon request and would have to wait months for needed surgery that we could schedule next week under the current system.

We'll have a system whereby those with the means will get the best care from the best doctors while those without will be treated by third-world schooled doctors who will have guidelines and standards dictated to them by the government. In essence, we will have the same non-care they have in Britain. That will be the state of health care in Obamanation.

No thanks.