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LINDA DOUGLASS:
Hi, I'm Linda Douglass,
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I'm the communications director
for the White House Office of Health Reform.
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And one of my jobs is to keep
track of all the disinformation
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that's out there about
health insurance reform.
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And there are a lot of very
deceiving headlines out there
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right now, such as this one,
take a look at this one.
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This one says, "Uncovered
video, Obama explains how his
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healthcare plan will
eliminate private insurance."
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Well, nothing could be
father from the truth.
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You know, the people who always
try to scare people whenever you
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try to bring them health
insurance reform are at it
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again, and they are taking
sentences and phrases out of
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context and cobbling them
together to leave a very false impression.
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The truth is that the President
has been talking to the American
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people a lot about health
insurance reform and what is at
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stake for them, so what happens
is that because he's talking to
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the American people so much,
there are people out there with
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a computer and a lot of free
time and they take a phrase here
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and there, they simply cherry
pick and put it together and
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make it sound like he's saying
something that he didn't really say.
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Now, for example, here is a clip
that they probably won't show you.
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THE PRESIDENT:
Here is a guarantee that I've made.
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If you have insurance
that you like,
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then you will be able
to keep that insurance.
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If you've got a
doctor that you like,
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you will be able to
keep your doctor.
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Nobody is trying to change
what works in the system.
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We are trying to change what
doesn't work in the system.
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LINDA DOUGLASS:
And here's another one.
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THE PRESIDENT:
The public plan I think is an important
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tool to discipline
insurance companies.
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What we've said is,
under our proposal,
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let's have a system the same
way that federal employees do,
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the same way that members of
Congress do where we call it an
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exchange, but you can
call it the marketplace,
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where essentially you've got a
whole bunch of different plans.
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If you like your plan,
and you like your doctor,
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you won't have to do a
thing, you keep your plan,
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you keep your doctor.
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If your employer is providing
you good health insurance,
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terrific, we're not
going to mess with it.
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LINDA DOUGLASS:
During the August Congressional recess,
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the members of Congress are
going to be back with a
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health insurance reform
debate matters most,
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and that is in neighborhoods and
communities where people are
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struggling with high
healthcare costs,
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where people are facing unfair
insurance regulations that
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deny them the healthcare
that they need,
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where people are really seeking
some kind of stability and
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security that will let them
know that there will always be
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