Obamacare issue reveals the real obama: a real disgrace
Obama said last week in his weekly address, on the White House YouTube channel,
“I want to be very clear. I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade, and by helping improve quality and efficiency, the reforms we make will help bring our deficits under control in the long term. Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan you won’t get to choose your doctor, that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That’s also not true. Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family doctor should be, and no one should decide that for you, either. Under our proposal if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period. End of story.
Opponents of health reform warn that this is all some big plot for socialized medicine or government-run health care with long lines and rationed care. That’s not true, either. I don’t believe that government can or should run health care, but I also don’t think insurance companies should have free rein to do as they please. That’s why any plan I sign must include an insurance exchange, a one-stop shopping marketplace where you can compare the benefits, costs, and track records of a variety of plans, including a public option to increase competition and keep insurance companies honest and choose what’s best for your family.”
Every bit of that is a lie. I’ll point them all out to you:
Lie #1
“I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade, and by helping improve quality and efficiency, the reforms we make will help bring our deficits under control in the long term.“
Truth: deficits will be added onto. The CBO has come out and said the deficit is going to rise by $213 billion, and that’s minimal. The plan will not save money.
Lie #2
“Under our proposal if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance.”
You may get to keep them for a year, until you either change jobs or your employer shelves your health care coverage, then you’ll have to sign up for the public option plan. If you read the house plan, then you know what’s in it: you are going to lose your insurance package under most scenarios, and it is going to be the federal government choosing your doctor based on the plan that they assign you to. If you don’t have health insurance, you are subject to huge increases in penalties and that the IRS will levy every year when you file your taxes.
You do not get to keep your insurance, and you do not get to keep your doctor. Period. End of story.
Lie #3
“Opponents of health reform warn that this is all some big plot for socialized medicine or government-run health care with long lines and rationed care. That’s not true, either.”
Yes that is true. Obama lied by saying “that’s not true.” There are already 1,700 options available for you in choosing health insurance, and adding the government amongst the mix isn’t gonna do much as far as competition goes. What it will do though, is run the private health insurance companies out of business, because you can’t compete with an organization that doesn’t have to make profits to thrive.
It is government-run health care, it is socialized medicine; it will have long lines and rationed care.
Here’s Nancy Pelosi last week on Friday, lying about how the Obamacare will provide you with a choice:
“It’s really important for everyone to know that when this bill passes shortly thereafter, preexisting medical conditions will no longer bar people from having health care. If you lose your job, if you change jobs, if you start a new business and if you become self-employed you will continue to have health care. It will lower costs, it will improve quality, it will expand choice and it will give people peace of mind. This is legislation that will not increase the deficit. Half of the funds for the bill will come from savings, others from the revenue stream. I hope that we can change that percentage, that we have much more coming from savings. That I believe that all the costs of the health care reform bill can come from squeezing more savings out of the system.”
Who’s gonna get squeezed, madam speaker? The doctors? The private health insurance companies? The hospitals?
Again, a pack of lies coming from yet another top democrat who’s in a rush to get this thing passed. This is a legislation that will increase the deficit. The CBO has come out and said the deficit is going to rise by $213 billion, and that’s minimal.
These democrats are lying through their teeth just in order to get the bill passed. These are the people who have no standards, no values, and for whom truth is relative. These are the bunch who has given us over $12 trillion in deficits over 10 years, and now they’re talking about efficiencies and savings.
To Obama, representing all the democrats who back this plan, I say, “You sir, are a liar: liar, liar, your pants are on fire!”
