Slippery talk on healthcare reform

Why does Barak Obama not speak openly and plainly?

Fact-Checking the President on Health Insurance: His tales of abuse don't stand scrutiny. (Scott Harrington)

Rationing for Dummies (Robert H. Knight)

Washington's New Buzzword: Mandating Individual Responsibility (Dan Holler)

Barak Obama: I want universal healthcare, not private insurance (2007)

Obama's healthcare speech to Congress (September 10, 2009)

Another Health-Care Invention: Obama and the cost of individual insurance (Sept 16, 2009)

President Obama's slippery healthcare reform double-speak reminds me of whatMartin Luther wrote concerning Erasmus of Rotterdam:

Why does he not rather speak openly and plainly? Why does he always deal in these crafty and ensnaring figures of speech? So great a rhetorician and theologian ought not only to know, but to act according to, that which Fabius says, 'An ambiguous word should be avoided as a rock.' . . .For to what does this hateful double-tongued way of speaking tend? 

. . . For this it was, that even the public laws of the Roman empire condemned this manner of speaking, and punished it thus. - They commanded, 'that the words of him who should speak obscurely, when he could speak more plainly, should be interpreted against himself.'
 . . . For if in religion, in laws, and in all weighty matters, we should be allowed to express ourselves ambiguously and insidiously, what could follow but that utter confusion of Babel, where no one could understand another! . . . What [then] would become of logic, the instructor of teaching rightly? What would become of rhetoric, the faculty of persuading? Nothing would be taught, nothing would be learned, no persuasion could be carried home, no consolation would be given, no fear would be wrought: because, nothing would be spoken or heard that was certain.

De Servo Arbitrio "On the Enslaved Will" or The Bondage of the Will
by Dr. Martin Luther, Henry Cole, Translator (1823)