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The Obama regime is still trying to convince you that they never said what they said.

And now that we know that Obama has set up a system where only rich people can access the the doctors and hospitals they want, how does this not exacerbate the quality of life between the rich and the poor? Why has the Obama administration created a system that makes quality healthcare available only for the 1%? These are questions liberals and ObamaBots in general have to ask themselves, and they’re not going to like the answers.

Via RCP.

CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: President Obama famously promised, if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. Doesn’t that turn out to be just as false, just as misleading, as his promise about if you like your plan you can keep your plan? Isn’t it a fact, sir, that a number, most, in fact, of the Obamacare health plans that are being offered on the exchanges exclude a number of doctors and hospitals to lower costs?

EZEKIEL EMANUEL: The president never said you were going to have unlimited choice of any doctor in the country you want to go to.

WALLACE: Wait. No. He asked a question. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Did he not say that, sir?

EMANUEL: He didn’t say you could have unlimited choice.

WALLACE: It’s a simple yes or no question. Didn’t he say if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor?

EMANUEL: Yes. But look, if you want to pay more for an insurance company that covers your doctor, you can do that. This is a matter of choice. We know in all sorts of places you pay more for certain — for a wider range of choices or wider range of benefits. The issue isn’t the selective networks. People keep saying, ‘Oh, the problem is you’re going to have a selective network.’

WALLACE: Well, if you lose your doctor or lose your hospital —

EMANUEL: Let me just say something. People are going to have a choice as to whether they want to pay a certain amount for a selective network or pay more for a broader network.

WALLACE: Which means your premiums will probably go up.

EMANUEL: They get that choice. That’s a choice you’ve always made.

WALLACE: Which means your premium may go up over what you were paying so that, in other words —

EMANUEL: No one guaranteed you that your premium wouldn’t increase. Premiums have been going up.

WALLACE: The president guaranteed me I could keep my doctor.

EMANUEL: And if you want to, you can pay for it. Under President Bush, premiums went up 80% after inflation. We have actually seen a leveling off of health care costs and premiums in the last few years because of changes that have been made.

As a matter of fact, choice is something — we all understand that for more choice, more benefits, you have to pay more.

Here’s a bit more on Rahm’s brother, this ObamaCare “advisor,” from Betsy McCaughey back in 2009==. Deadly Doctors.

Start with Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. He has already been appointed to two key positions: health-policy adviser at the Office of Management and Budget and a member of Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research.
Emanuel bluntly admits that the cuts will not be pain-free. “Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change,” he wrote last year (Health Affairs Feb. 27, 2008).

Savings, he writes, will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others” (Journal of the American Medical Association, June 18, 2008).

Yes, that’s what patients want their doctors to do. But Emanuel wants doctors to look beyond the needs of their patients and consider social justice, such as whether the money could be better spent on somebody else.

Many doctors are horrified by this notion; they’ll tell you that a doctor’s job is to achieve social justice one patient at a time.

Emanuel, however, believes that “communitarianism” should guide decisions on who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those “who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens . . . An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia” (Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. ’96).