[ laughter ] the president took questions from reporters last night including a gentleman named steve koff of the cleveland plain dealer. >> mr. president -- [ coughing ] -- i'm sorry. could you -- look at me. >> you have got a bad sore throat. >> yeah. >> you see, ironically, his name is cough. >> right. weird. [ laughter ] >> guillermo actually wrote that. [ laughter ] >> good job. >> nice work, [ bleep ]. [ laughter ] obama was also asked about the ongoing controversy surrounding henry louis gates. he's the prominent african-american professor who last week he was coming home from a trip to china and he -- to china. the lock on his house was jammed so he and his driver tried to force the door open and the police came and questioned him and he got upset. the police wound up arresting him and last night, obama said that the cambridge police acted stupidly. that caused controversy. i don't know what happened, and racial profiling is a serious thing, so i thought it wise to my uncle frank, who was a police officer for 30 years. he's here to help law enforcement officials everywhere to help

well, i said steve koff. but he just stood up. well, that's not fair. shame on you. all right. get in there real quick. >> i appreciate that. you cited the mayo clinic and the cleveland clinic as models for the delivery of health care in the past. the mayo clinic has some problems with the house bill. what do you hope to achieve tomorrow at the cleveland clinic, and do you expect endorsement? >> i don't expect endorsement. the cleveland clinic is simply a role model for some of the kind of changes that we want to see. i think it's important to note that the mayo clinic was initially critical and concerned about whether there were enough changes in the delivery system, and cost saving measures, in the original house bill. after they found out that we had put forward very specific mek schisms for this med-pac idea, this idea of experts getting the politics out of health care, and making decisions based on the best evidence out there, they wrote in their blog, the very next day, that we actually think that would make a difference. okay? all right. i tried to make that short so tha

well i said steve koff but he just stood up, huh? well that's not fair. shame on you. okay. get in there real quick. >> i appreciate that. you cited the mayo clinic and the cleveland clinics as models for the delivery of health care in the past. the mayo clinic though has some problems with the house proposal saying it is not focused enough on patients and results. what do you expect to achieve tomorrow by going to the cleveland clinic which hasn't stated an opinion and are you expecting some form of endorsement from the cleveland clinic? >> i am not expecting an endorsement. the cleveland clinic is simply a role model for some of the kind of changes we want to see. i think it's important to note that the mayo clinic was initially critical and concerned about whether there were enough changes in the delivery system and cost saving measures in the original house bill. after they found out we had put forward very specific mechanisms for this idea of experts getting the politics out of health care and making decisions based on the best evidence out there, they wrote in their bl

well i said steve koff but he just stood up, huh? well that's not fair. shame on you. okay. get in there real quick. >> i appreciate that. you cited the mayo clinic and the cleveland clinics as models for the delivery of health care in the past. the mayo clinic though has some problems with the house proposal saying it is not focused enough on patients and results. what do you expect to achieve tomorrow by going to the cleveland clinic which hasn't stated an opinion and are you expecting some form of endorsement from the cleveland clinic? >> i am not expecting an endorsement. the cleveland clinic is simply a role model for some of the kind of changes we want to see. i think it's important to note that the mayo clinic was initially critical and concerned about whether there were enough changes in the delivery system and cost saving measures in the original house bill. after they found out we had put forward very specific mechanisms for this idea of experts getting the politics out of health care and making decisions based on the best evidence out there, they wrote in their bl