MUST READ & Forward – Obama’s Pants On Fire
Q: If the President spontaneously combusts from lying too much, does the Secret Service have to put him out?
FACT CHECK: Premiums would rise under Obama plan
WASHINGTON – Buyers, beware: President Barack Obama says hishealth care overhaul will lower premiums by double digits, but check the fine print.
Please read the story and make sure you pass this one around.
Here’s a teaser:
“Your employer, it’s estimated, would see premiums fall by as much as 3,000 percent,” said the president, “which means they could give you a raise.”
A White House press spokesman later said the president misspoke; he had meant to say annual premiums would drop by $3,000.
Oh wait, that too is still not correcting the actual lie. (emphasis mine)
A report for the Business Roundtable, an association of big company CEOs, was the source for the claim that employers could save $3,000 per worker on health care costs, the White House said.
Issued in November, the report looked generally at proposals that Democrats were considering to curb health care costs, concluding they had the potential to significantly reduce future increases.
But the analysis didn’t consider specific legislation, much less the final language being tweaked this week. It’s unclear to what degree the bill that the House is expected to vote on within days would reduce costs for employers.
An analysis by the Congressional Budget Office of earlier Senate legislation suggested savings could be fairly modest.
It found that large employers would see premium savings of at most 3 percent compared with what their costs would have been without the legislation. That would be more like a few hundred dollars instead of several thousand.
Seriously, read the whole thing, forward to your email list, and include the switchboard numbers for the White House and Congress.
The President and liberals in Washington are lying to the American people in order to enact this takeover of Health Care. Sure, this is just the first step, but it is a huge step. A step meant to create chaos in the private health insurance market and require complete government takeover.
They cannot tell you that straight up, although I bet Rep. Kucinich was promised that on Air Force One yesterday. The truth is that they have to fool people into believing this is reform, when it is actually the intentional destruction of the health care industry.
After all, President Obama said he was going to fundamentally transform America. You can’t do that with out tearing it apart.
White House: Comments: 202-456-1111 - Switchboard: 202-456-1414 - FAX: 202-456-2461
Congressional Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
I hope the DC Fire Department is on standby at the White House.
