... and find a LOT MORE posters HERE.
and you've GOT to see this history of health care costs here.
Posted on 09/10/2010 8:44:51 PM PDT by Justaham
President Barack Obama told voters repeatedly during the health care debate that the overhaul legislation would bring down fast-rising health care costs and save them money. Now, he's hemming and hawing on that.
So far, the law he signed earlier this year hasn't had the desired effect. An analysis from Medicare's Office of the Actuary this week said that the nation's health care tab will go up — not down — through 2019 as a result of Obama's sweeping law, though the increase is modest.
Obama offered some caveats when asked in his news conference Friday about the apparent discrepancy between what he promised and what's actually happening so far. On several other topics, too, his rhetoric fell short of a full accounting.
A look at some of the claims at his news conference and how they compare with the facts:
In a White House news conference, President Obamainsisted that recovery from the deepest recession in decades is happening but conceded the "progress has been painfully slow." Full story
Updated 25 minutes ago Health care politics run into economic reality First Read's Top 10 Senate takeovers Newsweek: DADT ruling could spur Senate to act Schwarzenegger, Palin trade Twitter jabs ..OBAMA: Said he never expected to extend insurance coverage to an additional 31 million people "for free." He added that "we've made huge progress" if medical inflation could be brought down to the level of overall inflation, or somewhere slightly above that.
THE FACTS: Those claims may be supported in the fine print of the plan he pitched to Congress and a skeptical public months ago. But they were rarely heard back then. "My proposal would bring down the cost of health care for millions — families, businesses and the federal government," he declared in March.
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Hes not even a good lier with the totus helping.
Honestly, what good is a prompter at a “unscripted” event with real reporters?
oh wait.. it was not a presser, and no real reporters where allowed to ask questions and it was all likely scripted.
Isn't his name spelled Obamadinejad?
How ObamaCare Guts Medicare
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703649004575437311393854940.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion
We are no longer talking the original $523 Billion in Medicare cuts, BUT TRILLIONS in GUTTING Medicare for our vulnerable seniors.
Sally Pipes
VIDEO: The Truth About ObamaCare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sCayRhRimg
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