Posted on 08/12/2009 8:23:45 AM PDT by bestintxas
Several statements that President Barack Obama made at his town hall meeting at Portsmouth High School in New Hampshire on Tuesday merit closer inspection.
Among them:
Nobody will lose their current plan: "Now, the way we have approached it, is that if you've got healthcare under a private plan, if your employer provides you healthcare or you buy your own healthcare and you're happy with it, you won't have to change."
Fact: A nonprofit healthcare research organization, the Lewin Group, concluded in a study commissioned by the Heritage Foundation that more than 88 million Americans would lose their current insurance under the 1,018-page plan originally submitted to Congress.
"It is hard to argue against the facts," Nina Owcharenko, deputy director of the Center for Health Policy Studies for the Heritage Foundation, tells Newsmax. "The Lewin Group estimates more than 88 million could lose their current employer-based coverage under the House bill. Other estimates, by the Congressional Budget Office and Urban Institute, although lower than Lewin, still find millions of Americans could lose their current coverage."
Obama objects to special interests: "But let's face it, now is the hard part – because the history is clear – every time we come close to passing health insurance reform, the special interests fight back with everything they've got."
Fact: Actually, pharmaceutical companies and health insurance firms have tried hard to work with the administration to shape the proposals coming out of Congress.
"In stark contrast to the healthcare reform debate in the 1990s," reports The Hill, "the health insurance industry has refrained from launching attacks on Obama or the plans working their way through Congress. Insurance lobbyists have been very active on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue trying to shape the legislations, but so far the industry has not used its
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Makes you wonder how a room full of liberals can manage to form any kind of trust, doesn’t it. Each one knows the other is probably full of Sh#t no matter what he’s talking about.
Obama will lie and Granny will die!
Did you hear the Baghdad Bob #2’s presser this morning? O was sooooo sad no one was there with the concerns the media has been showing, he really wanted the opportunity to set the record straight, but sadly, all the people there yesterday were very supportive of healthcare — which, of course, proves the disrupters elsewhere are plants.... oh, and it’s all Sarah Palin’s fault.../s I cannot believe the press and their compliance, it makes me sick listening to those people this morning.
“Obama will lie and Granny will die!”
Obama lied. Grannies died.
This is how history will judge Obamacare if it is ever enacted.
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