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Posted on 03/23/2010 8:27:31 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
Ed Morissey of Hot Air says that every promise made by President Obama comes with an expiration date. That is a truism that has been proven over and over during the 15 months of the Obama Presidency, as he has broken promises about everything from transparency, earmarks, drilling for Oil among others. Each broken promise is greeted with silence by the mainstream media, because as the SHMOTUS said at the recent correspondents dinner, the press is his constituency.
Because the press will not do its job, we will have to do it for them. But to his credit, the President has made it easy, we don't even have to wait till the bill is actually executed to know which one of the President's promises will expire, below is a list of ten Presidential vows about health care reform, that expired this morning the very second he signed the bill.
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Promises?
How about LIES that were sold by deception to those who were DUPED by Hope and Change?
1. The bill provides more affordable coverage for the middle class.
According to Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a health care scholar at the free-market American Enterprise Institute, the new bill will actually make it more costly for middle class families to buy health insurance by forcing those who shop on the individual market to buy generous, but expensive plans mandated under the new law. Middle class families earning $88,000 or more a year won’t qualify for health care subsidies. A family earning $100,000 would end up spending nearly a quarter of their net income on health care.
2. Health insurance premiums will go down.
Health care premiums for those in the individual insurance market will rise 10 percent to 13 percent by 2016 under the plan, according to the Congressional Budget Office. While the cost of premiums will be subsidized with taxpayer dollars for 57 percent of those enrolled in the new government-run insurance exchanges, the 43 percent of enrollees who do not qualify for assistance will have to pay higher costs.
3. The bill creates jobs.
The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, says that the health care reform bill will create “between 2.5 million to 4 million additional jobs over the next 10 years.” But the fiscally conservative Beacon Hill Institute, part of Boston’s Suffolk University, conducted its own analysis and found that in response to higher taxes and mandates on companies to provide insurance, “firms would be induced to fire or lay off workers” to the tune of 120,000 to 700,000 employees by 2019. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, found that the new taxes would kill 690,000 jobs per year.
4. Federal funding will not cover abortion.
Obama agreed on Sunday to sign an executive order to reaffirm the Senate bill’s “consistency with long-standing restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion.” But pro-life groups say the executive order does not carry the force of a law and will do nothing to curb the provision in the bill they believe will allow taxpayer dollars to cover the procedure. “The president cannot amend a bill by issuing an order, and the federal courts will enforce what the law says,” the National Right to Life Committee said.
5. If you like your current health care plan, you can keep it.
The new health care law will impose a list of benefits each health care plan will have to offer if they are to remain in business. The Congressional Budget Office also estimates that about 4 million people would lose their employer-based plan and be forced to buy plans on the new government exchanges.
6. Medicare costs will be cut, not services.
The bill makes $528 billion in cuts to Medicare, including a $136 billion reduction for Medicare Advantage. The Medicare Advantage cuts will force 4.8 million seniors off the popular plan by 2019. An additional $23 billion in cuts to Medicare will come from a panel charged with slashing Medicare spending.
7. The bill pays for itself.
The CBO found that the bill would reduce the deficit by $138 billion over 10 years, but the savings was achieved by leaving out a $208 billion provision lawmakers will have to enact later to ensure doctors are adequately paid for treating Medicare patients. When the “doc fix” is included in the bill, it runs $59 billion in the red over the next decade. And former CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin said that “if you strip out all the gimmicks and budgetary games” the 10-year deficit would exceed $560 billion.
8. State won’t get stuck with the bill.
The health care reform bill expands Medicaid to all non-elderly individuals up to 133 percent of the poverty line. The federal government would foot the bill for this expansion, but only until 2016. Beginning in 2017, states would gradually begin paying a portion of it. By 2020, states would cover 10 percent of the cost of Medicaid expansion.
9. There will be no rationing of care.
A survey conducted by the Medicus Firm, a medical recruitment company, found that 46 percent of physicians said they would quit or retire if the Democratic health care reform bill becomes law. The survey noted that “even if a much smaller percentage such as ten, 15, or 20 percent are pushed out of practice over several years at a time when the field needs to expand by over 20 percent, this would be severely detrimental to the quality of the health care system.”
10. The bill does not raise taxes.
The bill imposes a 40 percent excise tax on insurance plans costing $10,200 for individuals and $27,500 for families. It also raises revenue by increasing the Medicare payroll tax for those earning more than $200,000, plus a new 3.8 percent tax on unearned income for these earners. The bill also imposes new taxes on drug makers, medical device manufacturers and health insurers that are likely to be passed on to consumers.
Not familiar with the acronym. Does it mean Sh*t Heel Mother of the UNITED STATES?
I thought Obambi also said that we would get 5 days after passage to read Bills before he signed them.
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Obama OWNS HEALTHCARE.
All the long lines, denial of coverage, premium hikes, script increases, co-pay hikes, loss of doctor, dumped into govt pool, tax increases, etc.
Eveything can and will be blamed on Obamacare.
A Modest Proposal
If a politician tells the same lie more than 3 times at any venue in the worls - he faces litigation by any legal entity that cares to bring it. Legal defense must be pain out of the politician's own personal funds. Offsetting funds donated in the politician's defense to be taxed at 200%.
Too much coffee, but paid / pain -that’s a toss up. However worls = world.
Not to mention that my employer’s health insurance premiums will go down 3000% and he’ll be able to give me a raise.
Which, of course, I’ll need, when they abandon health care and tell us to go buy a policy on the open market. At $4500 a year.
There is a HUGE difference between "restrictions" and "banning"...
Stupak got duped...which we all saw coming....
“At $4500 a year.”
Triple that. The HSA plus care policies no longer will be ‘deemed’ good enough for the gobment (IRS).
The Nation magazine is flipping fits about how the first progressive POTUS is actually giving the insurance companies more profit. That is no lie, and it is true. They will be making more and rates will go up.
Reason?
To make it unaffordable for all, and thus government health care is born.
“If a politician tells the same lie more than 3 times at any venue in the worls - he faces litigation by any legal entity that cares to bring it.”
The FTC would never tolerate the degree of deceptive advertising that was on display in the Obama campaign. Obama wanted voters to believe 6 impossible things before breakfast and more than half of them bought it!
My high deductible plan, one that I’ve actually been able to afford, will soon be history.
So, do I eat dog food so I have money for health care? That’s what the Dems have been accusing the right of wanting all along.
Joe Biden is the SCHMOTUS
The Schmo of the US
Thanks Shellybenoit.
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