Fox News Edits Obama Quote To Promote Idea of ‘Death Panels’

Fox News‘ Bret Baier and Shannon Bream were discussing health care reform, specifically the so-called “Death Panels” they imagine will decide the fate of the nation’s elderly. Here is what they had to say:

BREAM: He often discusses his grandmother’s story. She was battling terminal cancer when she fell and needed a hip replacement. Mr. Obama has talked about the fact that he would have paid her bills out of pocket, but that whether society should be willing to pay such costs is a tougher question.

In an April interview with The New York Times Magazine, he said, quote, “So that’s where I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues. But that’s also a huge driver of cost, right? I mean, the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here.”

Here is what Obama really said, in context, AKA the truth:

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think that there is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists. And then there is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels. And that’s part of why you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance. It’s not determinative, but I think has to be able to give you some guidance. And that’s part of what I suspect you’ll see emerging out of the various health care conversations that are taking place on the Hill right now. [The New York Times Magazine; 4/28/09]

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