On Wednesday, ABC is hosting a political event for Barack Obama at the White House where the president will campaign for the governmentalization of the American health care industry. Included in the event is one Dr. Tim Johnson, the Medical Editor for ABC News:
During the discussion from the East Room of the White House, President Obama will answer questions from an audience made up of Americans selected by ABC News who have divergent opinions in this historic debate. ABC News’ Medical Editor Dr. Timothy Johnson will also take part in the conversation which will focus on different ideas for how to fix the system and how proposed changes will impact our already fragile economy.
Unsurprisingly, Johnson is a hard leftist who already has his mind made up about whether people or government should be in command of the health care industry. From the Media Research Center, who found Johnson to be the biggest cheerleader in the media for government-run health care:
ABC medical editor Dr. Tim Johnson was perhaps the biggest cheerleader, celebrating news that Obama wanted $634 billion for a new health care fund. “Health care experts that I’ve talked to today are thrilled with this budget proposal. They see it as a very strong signal from the President that he is indeed very serious about health care reform and willing to put a lot of money behind his rhetoric,” Johnson exulted on February 26.
Three days later, on the March 1 World News, Johnson made his perspective clear: “We spend more than twice as much per person on health care in this country as the average of all other industrialized countries, yet we’re the only one that doesn’t have universal coverage. That’s a national shame.”
On March 5, Johnson participated in Obama’s health care forum, then went on World News to tell anchor Charles Gibson about the experience: “I have to tell you, Charlie, I was blown away by President Obama’s grasp of the subject, how he connected the dots, how he answered the questions without any script.”
MRC’s NewsBusters also recently discovered that Johnson must have attended a speech by Barack Obama at an American Medical Association in an alternate universe:
President Barack Obama created “a very tender moment,” as he addressed the American Medical Association in Chicago, and “was right on target at reaching out to the heart of most physicians” ABC’s Dr. Tim Johnson beamed on Monday’s World News in reaction to fill-in anchor George Stephanopoulos paraphrasing how Obama told the doctors “our health care system should let them be healers, again, instead of bean counters.”
This is in contrast to the Obama speech which was booed by medical professionals.
Johnson has a long history of pushing for government control of health care through his work on television. And as far back as last October, the MRC documented Johnson’s shilling for government control. All the way back in 1993, after Hillarycare flopped in an all-Democratic Congress that soon turned Republican (sound familiar?), Johnson whined about the results: “I say the Clintons are almost heroes in my mind for finally facing up to the terrible problems we have with our current health care system and bringing it to the attention of the public.”
Hopefully, the result then will be the result this time.
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