111 New Government Functions in Healthcare, Illustrate “Misconceptions” Held by the President

MainStreetRadical.com ^ | November 2, 2009 | James Devere

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Until now, the healthcare debate has included very little in the way of specifics. The President, Speaker Pelosi, and Senator Reid all preferred to speak of healthcare in a broad sense. Even the Senate bill was not a true bill, but rather an outline of what should be in a bill. With the House releasing its 1990 page juggernaut document on health reform, we can finally look at some specifics; and with specifics we can judge the veracity of the preceding debate.

Throughout the last three months, Barack Obama has repeatedly shown up on our TV screens and told the American people that the healthcare debate was being skewed by misconceptions. Today it seems that maybe the biggest misconception was held by President Obama himself. In an interview on September 20th Obama commented on the opposition to healthcare saying, “Healthcare has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy.” He went on to point out that he has “no interest in increasing the size of government.” Judging by the list below, the President was woefully wrong. This is just one of many misstatements made by the president from coverage for illegal immigrants to cuts in Medicare.

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I do not like clicking on a link to read a news story and winding up on blog. FR is getting out of hand with nothing but blog links...

Used to be we’d post the link and talk about OUR take on the article in the meat of the thread instead of now, jumping to someone’s blog to get hits.

If this is just me, then fine...I’ll leave it alone

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Well I haven’t been posting our information under “News”, I thought that the GOP club was a place to post giving our opinion on the current state of affairs.

If these posts would be better suited to the blog section I can put them there. I/we have really grown fond of the FR community and have enjoyed being able to exchange thoughts and ideas with the members. We certainly don’t want to be breaking any forum norms.