Video: Interview with Dr. Bernadine Healy on ObamaCare
posted at 10:12 am on November 25, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Earlier this morning, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Bernadine Healy, the Health Editor for US News and World Report, about the efforts by Democrats to reform the American health-care system. Dr. Healy is uniquely positioned to offer analysis on this topic; she served on two Presidential task forces on science and health during the two Bush administrations, ran the National Institute of Health (the first woman to have held that position), and served as president of the Red Cross. Dr. Healy is also a cancer survivor herself, giving her a well rounded view of the American delivery of health care and the critical need for patient choice.
Earlier this week, she wrote that ObamaCare attacks that doctor-patient relationship and the choices it makes in treating illnesses, which I highlighted in this post. Dr. Healy agreed to talk with me today to discuss that, and how the US Preventive Services Task Force guidelines on mammography foreshadow the use of “comparative effectiveness” in ObamaCare. Watch it all.
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Under Obamacare we’ll have more freedom and liberty to choose lawyers than we will Doctors.
(Actually that makes for an intersting point… shouldn’t we have universal lawyer coverage first?)
Skywise on November 25, 2009 at 10:15 AM
I’ll say it again:
Bernadine Healy & Peggy Noonan: separated at birth.
Abby Adams on November 25, 2009 at 10:16 AM
So…. Bernadine got the looks and the brains.
Peggy got…… ?
UltimateBob on November 25, 2009 at 10:17 AM
HA ladies: Get in now for pap smears and mammograms.
OmahaConservative on November 25, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Keep her on the airwaves. She’s right, she’s bright, and she knows what she’s talkin’ about.
SouthernGent on November 25, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Minor irritant. When can we stop doing first non-white male person to do something?
WashJeff on November 25, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Obamacare: Legal Selective Extermination
ms on November 25, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Ed actually ran a column months ago arguing for exactly that, although mostly (?) in jest.
jwolf on November 25, 2009 at 10:20 AM
I am the first white male with a mole on his left butt cheek to post a comment here today. Adulation should commence at once.
faol on November 25, 2009 at 10:22 AM
More Obamacare? Where are the stories on today’s economic news!
ernesto on November 25, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Minor irritant. When can we stop doing first non-white male person to do something?
WashJeff on November 25, 2009 at 10:18 AM
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I think it needs to be known and remembered that we have the first non-white male destroying the United States.
ms on November 25, 2009 at 10:23 AM
460,000 new jobless claims for last week. First time below 500,000 in quite awhile.
Consumer spending up 0.7%
Incomes up 0.2%
Gold at ~$1180
Durable good orders down 0.6%
WashJeff on November 25, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Minor irritant. When can we stop doing first non-white male person to do something?
WashJeff on November 25, 2009 at 10:18 AM
I am the first white male with a mole on his left butt cheek to post a comment here today. Adulation should commence at once.
faol on November 25, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Oops, forgot the lead in. That could be a whole new thread.
1st Hispanic
1st Black
1st Blonde
etc
etc
etc
faol on November 25, 2009 at 10:26 AM
When are we going to have the government require everyone to own a gun?
Gotcha on November 25, 2009 at 10:27 AM
The left is always railing about how conservatives want to get into your bedroom. On the otherhand, the Democrats will let you do what you want with your sex parnter(s) but want to control everything else about your life. Funny thing is, that under the rule of the Republican Taliban I never found any conservative peeping toms lurking about and interferring with my erotic activities.
jerryofva on November 25, 2009 at 10:28 AM
When are we going to have the government require everyone to own a gun?
Gotcha on November 25, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Oh, I thought we were already required to own 24.
My bad
faol on November 25, 2009 at 10:32 AM
TMI
Proud Texan on November 25, 2009 at 10:32 AM
You should see Dr. Healy about that.
MarkTheGreat on November 25, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Perhaps that says more about the lack of anything interesting going on in that department?
MarkTheGreat on November 25, 2009 at 10:34 AM
TMI
Proud Texan on November 25, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Actually this was:
I never found any conservative peeping toms lurking about and interferring with my erotic activities.
jerryofva on November 25, 2009 at 10:28 AM
faol on November 25, 2009 at 10:35 AM
You should see Dr. Healy about that.
MarkTheGreat on November 25, 2009 at 10:32 AM
It’s a beauty mark.
faol on November 25, 2009 at 10:36 AM
Lorien shows up to say, “I’d hit it” in
3…
2…
1…
UltimateBob on November 25, 2009 at 10:37 AM
MTG:
You would be surprised … :)
jerryofva on November 25, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Akzed on November 25, 2009 at 11:11 AM
I met Dr. Healy during her tenure @ OSU. Y’all would like her: smart,tough & funny. Also prettier than Peggy Nooner.
BHO Jonestown on November 25, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Ed on the story, again. Ahead of the usual crowd.
Buy the New York Times before they disappear!
percysunshine on November 25, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Ed, thanks for these scoops and interesting interviews. Makes another great reason to come to Hot Air.
Firefly_76 on November 25, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Ed, the kind of stuff you are doing is treading perilously close to journalism. Don’t you have to have a Journalism Degree to do that? And if you do, when are you ever going to release your transcripts?
/subtle, snarky praise mode off
GnuBreed on November 25, 2009 at 12:11 PM
You don’t think that the federal government passing a bill to spend 2.5T over each 10 years has anything to do with ‘economic news’? Let me assure you that if this thing passes, the entire budget will be dedicated to this before anything is done within 20 years. No teachers, no wars, no disaster relief, no nothing but paying for Obamacare and the interest on the debt that it causes.
Obamacare is economic news. If it passes, it will be the all encompassing federal budget. Put it this way. . . America spends 2.5T each year on health care. Obama and dems want to control ALL of that. They only bring in 1.7B in revenue now.
ThackerAgency on November 25, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Anyone have a good source on how many persons in the medical field will either retire, move overseas or simply retire if Obamacare becomes law.
Dark-Star on November 25, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Nice get, Ed! Kudos.
dogsoldier on November 25, 2009 at 1:04 PM
Obamacare: Legal Selective Extermination
ms on November 25, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Says it all in just three words. Needs to go viral.
Great interview ED.
Annie on November 25, 2009 at 2:05 PM
Wow.
Jaibones on November 25, 2009 at 2:13 PM
Akzed on November 25, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Crap! Thought I was unprecedented.
faol on November 25, 2009 at 2:27 PM
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