By Fred Lucas,CNSNews.com
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs has evaded answering the question of whether President Barack Obama agrees with Dr. Donald Berwick,his newly appointed administrator of Medicare and Medicaid,who has insisted that health-care systems must redistribute wealth.
“Excellent health care is by definition redistributional,” Berwick said in a speech delivered on July 1,2008.
When asked directly at the July 7 White House press briefing whether Obama agreed with this,Gibbs would not answer the question. Instead,he parried it with jocular statements about the provenance of the quote.
On July 8,CNSNews.com sent Gibbs an email that included a link to a YouTube page on which is posted a video of the portion of Berwick’s July 1,2008 speech in which Berwick made the comment. Gibbs was also provided with a transcript of the relevant segment of the video and a copy of the July 26,2008 edition of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) which published a written adaptation of Berwick’s speech.
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Another Czar who is an anti-American extremist!
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When one speaks in front of and audience and a bevy of television cameras,one would expect that verifying the "provenance"of a remark would not be difficult. How dumb does Obama and his nest of Czar-serpents think the American public is?