Point Counter Point Weekly Address

The Provocateur ^ | 10/10/2009 | Mike Volpe

[fiscon1]

The president used this weekly address, like many recently, to focus on "health insurance reform". If there's a common theme in this address, it's the amount of information that the president misconstrued. First the president touted the Baucus bill now about to get out of the Senate Finance Committee. The president said the CBO analyzed the Baucus bill and concluded that: it wouldn't add to the deficit, would cover millions, and cut billions in fraud and waste. Only the first is entirely accurate. While the Baucus bill would in fact cover millions it would still leave almost half currently uninsured still uninsured. Of course, the CBO said nothing about what the Baucus bill would do about waste, fraud and corruption. The CBO rarely runs such an analysis.

[ronnie raygun]

Point.... we have a health bill.
counterpoint..... we don’t want it!