Posted on 12/16/2009 2:53:54 PM PST by COUNTrecount
President Obama told ABC News’ Charles Gibson in an interview that if Congress does not pass health care legislation that will bring down costs, the federal government “will go bankrupt.”
The president laid out a dire scenario of what will happen if his health care reform effort fails.
“If we don't pass it, here's the guarantee….your premiums will go up, your employers are going to load up more costs on you,” he said. “Potentially they're going to drop your coverage, because they just can't afford an increase of 25 percent, 30 percent in terms of the costs of providing health care to employees each and every year. “
The president said that the costs of Medicare and Medicaid are on an “unsustainable” trajectory and if there is no action taken to bring them down, “the federal government will go bankrupt.”
“This actually provides us the best chance of starting to bend the cost curve on the government expenditures in Medicare and Medicaid,” Obama said.
Obama told Gibson that anybody who says they are concerned about the rising deficit or worried about tax increases in the future has to support this health care bill.
“Because if we don't do this, nobody argues with the fact that health care costs are going to consume the entire federal budget,” the president said.
Obama is facing an increasingly skeptical American public when it comes to his push for health care reform.
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That will solve the deficit problem!
His verb tense is wrong. The federal govt IS bankrupt.
Earth to Obama:you went bankrupt 12 TRILLION DOLLARS AGO!
‘A trillion here,a trillion there,pretty soon you’re talking real money’...Everett M. Dirksen
OK,actually he said billion,but thats in todays money.
What an ef’ing idiot....
What an ef’ing idiot....
They’re headed for bankrupty regardless....and if that Moslem half-breed thinks this healthcare con his Democrat party has ginned up will DO ANYTHING to rein in healthcare costs OR bring down the deficit...they should be institutionalized as to stupid to attempt reasoning.
Lying retard.
This is the contingency cover story being prepped and audience-tested.
This was brought up a few months ago: For Obama, EVERYTHING must be a crisis. It is his mantra: “We must do this or we’re all gonna die”.
No, it will go bankrupt if you continue to spend like an eight year old who found a wallet with ten trillions dollars in it.
The “audience” is brain dead, that’s what they’re counting on.
America to Obama - "We're already broke, you moron, passing legislation that increases our taxes and deepens the debt won't save your bacon.
This is just more scare tactics to try to convince the sheeple that "we're all gonna DIE"!
Don't count deviousness as foolishness.
He ain't doing this because he's stupid.
And then by increasing the amount of people covered, we'll still have to pay more to end up getting our Health Care Rationed...
Who could pass up such a good deal?
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No, it will go bankrupt if you continue to spend like an eight year old child that found a wallet with a credit card in it that had a nine trillion dollar limit, and you over-drafted it by nine trillion.
So let’s take everything bad about the system- and make it ten times worse!
Then take everything good- and destroy it!
Good plan Obama. Idiot.
Costs are driven almost entirely by jackass lawyers like John Edwards. When he wins a multi million dollar award from some idiot jury who liked his dead-girl-channeling, that award is piled straight on top of costs- for all of us.
The providers buy insurance to protect themselves against jackasses like Edwards, and pile thatt straight on top costs- for all of us.
Then they perform 3 times as many tests as needed to further protect against jackasses like Edwards, and pile that straight on top of cosats- for all of us.
So Barack- take your phoney baloney concern for costs and stuff it up your blue ringed anus.
USA will go bankrupt if it won’t spend another $2 trillion...
Obamalogic, ladies and gentlemen!
“the federal government will go bankrupt.”
So this is the pre-Christmas message Obozo has for the country in his interview with soon to be retired snoot-nose Gibson.
This is a seed, a trial balloon, because you know he does want to destroy our economy. And then when it all goes south, he has a scapegoat- the failure to pass his health care program.
What POTUS throws out ““the federal government will go bankrupt” in an interview with a network anchor?
These people are devious schemers who ran a brilliant campaign last year, and phrases like this are intentionally planned and planted.
He doesnt care if the public is “skeptical” of his healthcare plan- he hates this country, wants to take us down, and couldnt give two farts if people are skeptical.
He’s going full apeed ahead.
I curse the day he was born, and the place too, wherever that is, your guess is as good as mine.
This is the conquest of America by a treasonous leftist.
I hope the Health Care bill gets tied around his neck and that he sinks like a stone.
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