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Originally Posted by Danzig
i went to factcheck, and here's more on the issue-i may have put this up already, i don't recall:
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/07/oba...ws-conference/
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President Obama tried to sell his health care overhaul in prime time, mangling some facts in the process. He also strained to make the job sound easier to pay for than experts predict.
■Obama promised once again that a health care overhaul “will be paid for.” But congressional budget experts say the bills they’ve seen so far would add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit over the next decade.
■He said the plan "that I put forward" would cover at least 97 percent of all Americans. Actually, the plan he campaigned on would cover far less than that, and only one of the bills now being considered in Congress would do that.
■He said the "average American family is paying thousands" as part of their premiums to cover uncompensated care for the uninsured, implying that expanded coverage will slash insurance costs. But the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation puts the cost per family figure at $200.
■Obama claimed his budget "reduced federal spending over the next 10 years by $2.2 trillion" compared with where it was headed before. Not true. Even figures from his own budget experts don’t support that. The Congressional Budget Office projects a $2.7 trillion increase, not a $2.2 trillion cut.
■The president said that the United States spends $6,000 more on average than other countries on health care. Actually, U.S. per capita spending is about $2,500 more than the next highest-spending country. Obama’s figure was a White House-calculated per-family estimate. |
Just drink the cool aid.
From the other side, I think many who have health insurance treat it like they would a smorgasbord restaurant as in they paid to get in so will eat 2 dinners, salad, pie, desert, juice, pop and desert again and insured patients including Medicaid patients get test after test seeing specialist after specialist when if they had to pay at least a part of each procedure they may opt to wait or even not have. In Obama speak a deductable as you go if you will.