Questions for the President, Report On Canada's Program

Questions for the President:
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/07/22/my-question-for-the-president/
Mr. President, during your campaign, you said, “I can make a firm pledge…Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase.” You also said that “no one will pay higher tax rates than they paid in the 1990s.” Your National Economic Council chairman, Larry Summers, has written that employer mandates “are like public programs financed by benefit taxes.” Under the House health reform bill, an uninsured worker earning $50,000 per year, with no offer of coverage from her employer, would face a 15.3-percent federal payroll tax, a 25-percent federal marginal income tax rate, an 8-percent reduction in her wages (to pay the employer penalty), plus a 2.5 percent uninsured tax. In total, her effective marginal federal tax rate would reach 50.8 percent.
Do you stand by those pledges, and would you therefore veto any employer mandate or individual mandate as a tax on the middle class?
From here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/HealthCare/story?id=7918155&page=1

This one inspired by Arnold Kling:
Mr. President, you say you seek to reform America’s health care sector because it is unsustainable. You also say that Americans will get to keep what they have. Aren’t you contradicting yourself? http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/06/27/another-health-care-question-for-the-president/

This one’s not a question, but raises some questions:
"Sure enough, as soon as the hospital emergency staff saw my wife, they knew; it was advanced non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which had dissolved some of her collarbone. My wife had to be told her prognosis was not good, that she had to prepare for the worst. Fortunately for me, my doctor colleague, a high profile media individual, used her influence to get my wife the best specialists in the country—which, yes, meant that my wife is somewhat more special after all. She survived. She endured the most aggressive treatment regimen there is, and though she's left with considerable damage from the radiation, she's alive.
"The incompetent family doctor, who misdiagnosed, suffered no consequence. As well, my wife must keep the same family doctor unless she wishes to wait another six years or so.
"That's socialized medicine. Worse still, one may not openly criticize our system without being told to move to America if we don't like the world's finest socialized medical system. Criticizing our system is tantamount to being a global warming 'denier.' The propaganda is that effective."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/29/losing_control_of_your_health_care.html