Video: Obama admin. evades questions on Medicare Director’s “Redistribution” remarks

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.

Read Original Article with E-mail

Get Informed! Read More About this topic::

1. Medicare Rationer Won’t Disclose Who Paid the Bills Jim McElhatton, Washington Times Before he took over the nation’s...
2. Video: Obama Regime Recess Appoints Marxist to Run Death Panels By Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews President Barack Obama today circumvented...
3. Obama’s radical pick for Medicare By Betsy McCaughey, New York Post Obama’s pick for Medicare...
4. Bombshell Video: Wikileaks contacted Obama Admin. before release of documents but got no response by Floyd Brown Obama is downplaying the importance of the...
5. Obama Bypasses Senate to Name Health Official who advocated Wealth Distribution By Robert Pear, NYT President Obama will bypass Congress and...