This revealing - heard Obama say in a speech the other day that America has both private and public options viz universities and that hasn't ruined the educational system so why can't the same be true for health care? Nice - he's either being an idiot here, and he quite obviously isn't an idiot, or he's trusting the media to be stupid or compliant or both and not question the premise of the statement nor question the veracity of the person making it - more likely scenario.
Yes, Kentucky State and Harvard are both universities offering a variety of post-secondary degrees in multiple disciplines - but that's pretty much where their similarities end. Taking the statement at face value, if Obama is saying that the quality of health care you get will depend on how much you can afford to spend, then fine, I have no problem with that. But of course that's not what he's saying even though that is what he's saying - if the statement was meant to say what it in fact infers the health care debate would be over and Obama would be toast - to liberals, anyway - conservatives and libertarians I imagine would not have a problem with a multi-tiered health care system.
And so he's lying, or, if you prefer, manipulating perceptions by being less than honest - he's feeding off the assumption that quality of care can and will be equalized, that this is the goal, and that both private and public options can compete in this regard - but of course the only way equality can be achieved, in health care as it would be in education, is if the public option, through various procedural machinations, subsumes the private option, bleeds the Harvards dry.
So, there you go, classic Obama - a seemingly obvious and indeed somewhat anodyne statement of ostensible fact delivered with great charm that the press ignores or obediently condones - but in reality is either nonsensical, indicates a rather dramatic change of course in Obama's thinking on health care - or is a lie.
