ABC’s Dr. Tim Johnson, 15 Years of Shilling for Universal Health Care
ABC’s liberal medical editor, Dr. Tim Johnson, appeared on Wednesday’s “Good Morning America to boost Barack Obama’s universal health care plan and critique the more market oriented proposals of John McCain. Co-host Robin Roberts began the segment by seriously asserting, “We’re not endorsing one plan over the other. We’re just showing the differences between the two.”
But after she mentioned Obama’s assertion during Tuesday’s presidential debate that health care is a right, Johnson marveled, “But, I’m struck by the language of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Without good health, and that usually means without good health care, it’s hard to have those other rights.” Johnson, despite being a doctor, adopts the standard, liberal positions of most journalists and has a 15 year-plus history of advocating universal health care, including once asking if Republicans who opposed the policy were “immoral.”
Regarding Senator McCain’s idea to give people the opportunity to buy individual plans, even if they don’t have an employer, Johnson criticized, “That’s a difficult thing to do because there are so many different plans marketed.” Accentuating the negative, he added, “So, you’ve got to do a lot of work on your own and read the fine print. It’s a very difficult job for an individual.”
Johnson found no such criticisms for Senator Obama’s proposal. After describing the various health insurance plans the Democrat would offer, he approvingly observed, “But these plans will have been vetted by the government, just like they do for federal employees…But you know they’ve been vetted for basic care and coverage and that the cost is fair.”
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