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...saying, be still there for the family to make, will be - It's still going to be a decision that the family has to make. I guess - this is my point, I think that there's this perception that you either have rationing that is very stringent and sort of makes you wait for months before you can get your cancer treated or you can never get your knee replaced, right, all the horror stories you hear from the British model or the Canadian system that people who are opposed to reform always trot out. Or, alternatively, you just have...
TIME: I thought I'd talk to you a little bit about just sort of the whole degree to which this is really a test of leadership, health care is, as much as anything. And last year at the news conference, when somebody asked you - it was almost a flip question - whose job is this, you said, "It's my job, I'm the President." But the fact is that no President has been able to pull off anything of this order of magnitude in 44 years. President Obama: Right...
...understand that you've thought a lot and studied a lot, and that a few weeks ago, in fact, even Nancy-Ann [DeParle, the White House health czar] brought you a memo as to sort of just how LBJ pulled this off - not just making the case for it publicly, but really making the gears of government run. What of that experience speaks to this experience? Well, as you point out, the last time we did something of this magnitude was 1965. And the circumstances in some cases were similar, in some cases were profoundly different. Obviously LBJ had just...
...would a co-op fit that definition? Well, I think in theory you can imagine a co-operative meeting that definition. Obviously sort of the legal structure of it is less important than practically how can it operate. There are concerns that in the past, attempts at setting up co-ops have not been successful because they just haven't been able to get off the ground; sort of the start-up energy involved may not exist if you're doing a state-by-state co-op effort as opposed to a broad national plan...
...described it, and this is the truth as I see it: There is nothing that - there is nothing that would make you healthier that health reform would prevent you from getting. What we are interested in doing is giving doctors and patients the ability to sort through what's effective and what's not, and not purchase things that don't make any improvements in your health...