Posted on 08/16/2009 2:52:19 AM PDT by Scanian
President Obama's lies in Montana were the most egregious falsehoods since Bill Clinton said "I did not have sexual relations with that woman".
The current President was asked how the government is going to pay for the $1 trillion in new health care expenditures under HR 3200. Watch the video here.
Part of the President's answer included blaming a previous administration. Oh no, he's not blaming Bush again, is he?
Well, as it turns out, the previous administration was Bill ("depends on what the meaning of is is") Clinton's.
The current President claims that we can save $60 billion per year by "eliminating subsidies to big insurance companies". Subsidies? What subsidies?
In the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, during Bill Clinton's term, Medicare was changed to allow Medicare beneficiaries to choose to receive their benefits through competing private insurance plans. In other words, introduce market forces into a socialized medicine system, the opposite of what the President wants to do now. Over the next decade this was changed a few more times until it became known as Medicare Advantage (pdf).
Dr. John Kern explains why he feels Medicare Advantage is better for patients than regular public option Medicare.
Currently, 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries have chosen Medicare Advantage over the standard Medicare public option program. The government pays for Medicare Advantage insurance coverage by paying private insurance companies for the services they provide to their beneficiaries. This is not a subsidy, it is a reimbursement. Lies, lies and more lies.
The private insurance companies approved for Medicare Advantage operate in a tightly regulated, closely audited environment. If there is waste in the system, one would assume that the Medicare administrators would have already wrung that out of the system.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
costs are always in the trillions, savings are in the billions.
does this flipping administration have any idea how many billion are in a trillion?
Obama "Doctor": "Yes, I delivered Obama, in Hawaii,
with Morgan Fairchild assisting, and we put in on computer disc at the time, ....."
"That's right. And as a result I have given Miss... I mean "Doctor" Roxana Mayer
full dispensation to practice medicine and surgery in all 57 states."
"The President then went on to excoriate the previous administration (this time it was "Blame Bush") for passing the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act in 2003. Is he lying when he blames Bush?
Yes and no. The law was first brought to Congress in 1997 during Bill (you know what goes here) Clinton's second term. It took 6 years of Congressional debate before it was hammered through in 2003. Though the Republicans held a majority in the Senate that year, guess who had the majority in the House? You guessed it - the Democrats. And who was Speaker of the House in 2003? You guessed it again -- Nancy ("protestors are carrying swastikas") Pelosi. Lies, lies and more lies."
Once they run out of fingers they don't see the difference more zeros make.
Obama is fast earning the title "Capt. Queeg". Maybe we should flood the White House with ball bearings or frozen strawberries.
We've got to keep exposing the plants, and getting the information out quickly. Let people know that Obama's sales pitch is nothing but a con job bestowed upon the American people. It's all marketing. A good product sells itself, and this health care bill (not to mention 'Cap and Tax') is NOT a good product.
I’m confused. Who is the woman in the red circle? Roxana Mayer is the woman standing, isn’t she?
Give the Precedent a break... Afterall, Yesterday, he said he could save thousands of lives and many millions of dollars per year, if he could just order those dirty old Doctors and Nurses to just wash their nasty old hands, in between patients.
Give the man a chance to save us from our ignorant selves.
Can you believe that that ugly thing is wearing the same jacket in both pictures.
She must shop at the local “Goodwill”
Never mind, I found this on the web...
http://patterico.com/2009/08/14/roxana-mayer-invited-to-town-hall-by-obama-organizer-who-sported-che-guevara-poster-at-obama-campaign-office/
The woman in the red circle is an Obama volunteer who was photographed in an Obama campaign office in front of a Che Guevara poster last year.
She looks like one of those fish people from a Lovecraft story.
Furthermore, liars are always found out as they move about in the public eye...so one has to wonder about Obama's sanity (i.e. it is grossly irrational not to realize that your very integrity is at risk not if, but when you get caught).
Clinton was caught lying about a sexual relationship (which is not exactly unheard of among men) and it took a huge chuck out of his reputation.
Since Obama is using stagecraft (lies) to build his very self and position in office...he will go down in history as "one reviled."
And he will bring disgrace to those who have backed him...particularly those among his "race" (considering how much he has played upon that to win votes).
Fox frequently comments on his lies but they always treat them the same way—as politics as usual.
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