Obama to seniors: ‘This is not like Canada’

From: The Washington Times | July 28, 2009 

President Obama on Tuesday directed his message of health-care reform to the country’s oldest residents. “All I know right now is we have a problem, and it includes the spiraling cost of Medicare,” Mr. Obama said at a town-hall-style meeting at the AARP headquarters in Washington. Mr. Obama stuck to his familiar points such as cutting health-care costs by eliminating waste — including patients taking the same tests “over and over again.” He also restated that advance screening for cancer and rewarding doctors for “quality, not quantity” care also will cut costs. Mr. Obama repeatedly said he understood Americans were …

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