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Flattery was one of Barack Obama's tactics when he sat down with the networks' in-house doctors. "I have enormous faith in doctors," he told CBS' Jon LaPook when he was asked whether they would agree to save money by skipping unnecessary procedures. "Most patients and doctors do not want spend money unnecessarily," the President promised ABC's Timothy Johnson. NBC's Nancy Snyderman asked Obama how he proposed to pay for fixing the healthcare system: "Finance most of the reform through reallocating dollars that are already being paid into the system," he suggested, which sounds like a fancy way of asking healthcare workers to take a pay cut. For example, the President wants to convert many physicians from lucrative specialties to family practice: "Provide a powerful set of incentives for more and more young people who are interested in healthcare, interested in medicine, to go into primary care," he suggested to ABC's Johnson, with a timeline of four or five years for the transition.
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