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10) "One of the chief sponsors of this bill originally was a Republican -- then House member, now senator, named Johnny Isakson from Georgia -- who very sensibly thought this is something that would expand people's options."
Isakson came out immediately after this and emphatically condemned this outrageously false claim.
9) "AARP would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining Medicare, okay?"
The AARP quickly corrected this misinformation: "Indications that we have endorsed any of the major health care reform bills currently under consideration in Congress are inaccurate."
8) "You will not be waiting in any lines."
All the evidence says otherwise.
7) "46 million Americans don't have health insurance coverage today."
This is an obscenely dishonest "calculation."
6) "I'm not promoting a single-payer plan."
Obama admitted that such a plan is exactly his goal here. And here is a non-partisan study confirming that ObamaCare will indeed destroy free market health care, leaving us with no other options but government-run care.
5) "Under the reform we're proposing, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that 10 million workers would be forced out of their employer-based coverage and into government health care by this bill.
4) "So the intention...was to give people more information so that they could handle issues of end-of-life care when they're ready, on their own terms. It wasn't forcing anybody to do anything...And somehow it's gotten spun into this idea of 'death panels.'"
House Republicans, patient advocates, and conservative publications have repeatedly highlighted the specific parts of the bill that would in fact force seniors into counseling sessions that pressure them to stop burdening the system.
Obama's own Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, has openly admitted that Obama's "vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely 'lipstick' cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change." The real savings come from rationing care. ObamaCare will have panels modeled after Britain's system, which cuts costs by denying care to the sick and elderly.
3) "We're not talking about cutting Medicare benefits."
Obama admitted that this was how his health care scam would be funded. He has proposed $313 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid to pay for this.
2) "This is not about putting government in charge of your health insurance."
Yeah, how could passing a needless, blatantly unconstitutional law to address a non-existent crisis with endless government rules and regulations on every aspect of health care possibly be misconstrued as "putting government in charge?"
1) "I won't sign a bill that adds to the deficit or the national debt."
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the current legislation being promoted and defended by Barack "No Pork in This Bill" Obama will cost an absolute fortune and increase, rather than decrease, health care costs...making this claim completely absurd.
The one accurate thing Obama did say at this propaganda event was this:
"...If you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right?...It's the Post Office that's always having problems."
Right. Exactly.
Here is the transcript from last night's lie-fest. For more on Obama's pathologically dishonest health care hype, see the Cato Institute's new video breaking down all the Orwellian left-wing doublespeak.
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Good job, Rob
A repsonse to your creative spinShare
Today at 1:29pm
10) "One of the chief sponsors of this bill originally was a Republican -- then House member, now senator, named Johnny Isakson from Georgia -- who very sensibly thought this is something that would expand people's options."
Isakson came out immediately after this and emphatically condemned this outrageously false claim.
-- Why wouldn't he. He's a repbulican and doens't want his constituency to believe that Barrack Obama is trying to do anything Bipartisianly to incorporate, however few, republican ideas into the bill.
9) "AARP would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining Medicare, okay?"
The AARP quickly corrected this misinformation: "Indications that we have endorsed any of the major health care reform bills currently under consideration in Congress are inaccurate."
-- AARP is absolutely pro-healtcare reform... 100% because it would ultimately benefits it's advocacy group of 40+ million. I'll g
cont...
I'll get to the death panels later.. They just don't support the reform in it's current state... which is fine. Things get changed as they go through the house and the senate.
8) "You will not be waiting in any lines."
All the evidence says otherwise.
-- how long did you wait the last time you were at the emergency room?
7) "46 million Americans don't have health insurance coverage today."
This is an obscenely dishonest "calculation."
--HOw do you know that... did you do your own independent calculation? 46 million do not have healthcare or are under-insured. Provide me proof other wise.
6) "I'm not promoting a single-payer plan."
Obama admitted that such a plan is exactly his goal here. And here is a non-partisan study confirming that ObamaCare will indeed destroy free market health care, leaving us with no other options but government-run care.
--Half the reason healthcare is so expensive is because of people who are un
6) "I'm not promoting a single-payer plan."
Obama admitted that such a plan is exactly his goal here. And here is a non-partisan study confirming that ObamaCare will indeed destroy free market health care, leaving us with no other options but government-run care.
--Half the reason healthcare is so expensive is because of people who are under or not insured receiving treatment. Healthcare is absolutely a human right and it is against the hippocratic oath of a Dr. to deny care to some one in need. When people are able to afford their medical bills, some one has to pay them and that gets passed on to us, the insured which causes the cost of healthcare to increase exponentialy year over year. A single payer system could ultimately put a control into the mix where care is available to all and hospitals don't need to continually raise rates to make up for the loss they take on treating the uninsured. Throw preventitive care into the mix and Big Pharma cooperation we can change the
5) "Under the reform we're proposing, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that 10 million workers would be forced out of their employer-based coverage and into government health care by this bill.
--That is because the saving that are past on to the small business that will no longer have to suffer the burden of providing healthcare to their employees. With the public option, their employees will be able to have great insurance and not rely on their employer. This will do several things for the small business. First is obviously of set the cost of healthcare. And as we know Insurance co don't really "pay" claims, the company ultimately does which is crippling our business right now and is half the reason we see jobs overseas because the cost of production is too high here (I KNOW YOU'LL DIE BUT I AM NOT FULL FLEDGE UNION MAN LOL). Another way it hel
Healthcare is NOT a human right. In America we have the rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness. Notice it doesn't say "life, liberty and healthcare. The pursuit is the key hear. In America we have the right to pursue happiness and anything else that we want, BUT THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T OWE US ANYTHING.
4) "So the intention...was to give people more information so that they could handle issues of end-of-life care when they're ready, on their own terms. It wasn't forcing anybody to do anything...And somehow it's gotten spun into this idea of 'death panels.'"
House Republicans, patient advocates, and conservative publications have repeatedly highlighted the specific parts of the bill that would in fact force seniors into counseling sessions that pressure them to stop burdening the system.
Obama's own Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, has openly admitted that Obama's "vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely 'lipstick' cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change." The real savings come from rationing care. ObamaCare will have panels modeled after Britain's system, which cuts costs by denying care to the sick and elderly.
--Three points... Pat
3) "We're not talking about cutting Medicare benefits."
Obama admitted that this was how his health care scam would be funded. He has proposed $313 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid to pay for this.
--True but continue... Cuts that were either considered wasteful or parameters were put into place to stop clinics and dr. and other medical entities from draining the system by making fraudulent claims to the program.
2) "This is not about putting government in charge of your health insurance."
Yeah, how could passing a needless, blatantly unconstitutional law to address a non-existent crisis with endless government rules and regulations on every aspect of health care possibly be misconstrued as "putting government in charge?"
-- It is irresponsible for you to think this is not a crisis. It has always been a crisis and finally we have a President who is standing up to corporate interest for the American people. It's true sometimes the tree of liberty does need to water, however it will be with the figurative blood of the corporate interest losing it strangle hold on our government.
So there is your problem-fraudulent claims to the government. AS it is with anything that the Government gets its hands on, they screw it up. So lets give them more things to screw up like our health care system.
1) "I won't sign a bill that adds to the deficit or the national debt."
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the current legislation being promoted and defended by Barack "No Pork in This Bill" Obama will cost an absolute fortune and increase, rather than decrease, health care costs...making this claim completely absurd.
--Don't have any info on that but I guess if I am paying taxes, I'd rather be getting healthcare - eventually when we get the ever elusive single payer system - than the sh#t I got the past 8 years such as invasion of privacy, less civil rights and a campaign run on riling up the religious crazies by proposing writing discrimination into the constitution. I'll look all that up for later but chew on that a bit.
Cliff: You are -- literally -- too stupid to insult.
As a healthcare professional I have taken care of MANY from Canada who came to Fl.
To have their GOOD CARE! In my community we had more MRI machines than the entire Nation of Canada. Now,that was a few years
Yet, from what I read that has not changed much.
16 weeks for a MRI to be completed can make the difference between 'life - and - death'! I am pro life from fetus to elderly. A 90 year old of good mind and overall good life deserves the opportunity to remain among the living with a pace maker.
I ask, how in the world can a government that has BORROWED and MANUFACTURED - TRILLIONS among this first 6 months in office - actually more than ALL Presidents since the beginning of time with George Washington - how in the world can we trust them with our HEALTH PROVISIONS??? I have looked at www.wethepeoplehealth.com and see it as a option and we need to look at options such as this. We live in a time of more options for QUALITY care and we can NOT risk changes. GOD BLESS AMERICA!
AARP is on board and said the President was correct.
Submitted by MrUniteUs on August 14, 2009 - 4:01am.
We have the AARP on board because they know this is a good deal for our seniors.
TRUE: THE AARP IS CURRENTLY RUNNING ADS IN SUPPORT OF HEALTH CARE REFORM, AND CLEARS UP SOME OF THE MYTHS ON ITS WEBSITE.
AARP would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining Medicare.
TRUE: FROM THE COO
“While the President was CORRECT that AARP will not endorse a health care reform bill that would reduce Medicare benefits,"
"indications that we have endorsed any of the major health care reform bills currently under consideration in Congress are inaccurate."
TRUE: Neither the President nor AARP has endorsed any of the major health care reforms biils currently under consideratiojn in congress.
NOT MENTIONED BY THE PRESS OR TALK RADIO BUT
INCLUDED IN THE PRESS REALEASE.
“We share the President’s commitment to act this year, and our members appreciate his insistence that a
Cliff, Cliff, Cliff.
What color is the sky in your world wearing rose colored glasses?
Healthcare coverage is not a "right" as you claim. Since when does any individual paying for anothers care a "right"? That is, in fact, what Medicare/Medicaide is all about. Instead of revamping the entire system to the BS liberal agenda, why not fix what is already in place? Another food for thought, if the government could do such a great job of reform, why do we need reform in the first place? Answer, because our government has an uncanny knack for screwing things up.
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