The Obama Admin's Obamacare Lies Made Plain
Megan McArdle goes back in time, looks at the promises (the lies), and lays them out on Bloomberg:
The administration reiterated that, in Obama's words, "We will keep this promise to the American people. If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan. Period." They also promised that the average family would save $2,500 a year on premiums. There was no fine print about how some folks would lose their insurance, be forced into narrower doctor networks, and see premiums rise, even though they seem to have known what was going to happen.And the wonk community did not exactly hasten to disabuse them. The risks of higher premiums for some were acknowledged in an aside, but they were not headlined. Unless you were reading volumes of writing about health care very carefully indeed, it wasn't hard to miss that little detail -- at least one former Democratic staffer whose boss voted for the law seems to have been unaware that this was a possibility until her rates increased.
For that matter, I still see regular commenters on the liberal wonk blogs that I read repeating the canards about cost savings from uncompensated care, preventive medicine and so forth. I know that many of them were reading those blogs when they pointed out that these things aren't true, but it doesn't seem to have sunk in, perhaps because these pronouncements did not get quite as much airtime as analysis of the benefits of the law.
A history lesson from CNN's Political Ticker blog -- that "Senate Democrats supported rule that led to insurance cancellations." Chris Frates writes:
Washington (CNN) - Senate Democrats voted unanimously three years ago to support the Obamacare rule that is largely responsible for some of the health insurance cancellation letters that are going out.In September 2010, Senate Republicans brought a resolution to the floor to block implementation of the grandfather rule, warning that it would result in canceled policies and violate President Barack Obama's promise that people could keep their insurance if they liked it.
McArdle via @instapundit
This is a completely natural progression, the predictable result of the election of persons because of appearance rather than competency, with the full compliance of the media.
On election night, referring to Obama, Peter Jennings actually asked what do we know of this man!
Well?
What do you think a "community organizer from Chicago" really is?
Radwaste at November 1, 2013 9:12 AM
So basically, we have to elect him to find out who he is. Like we had to pass it to find out what's in it.
If this nonsense (or nonsense like the IRS retaliation) was perpetualed by George Bush or Rush Limbaugh or John Boehner the press would have done their jobs and exposed it.
When it is Obama the press flashes to a touching fluff story about the president and his dog.
Trust at November 1, 2013 11:11 AM
To Be Fully Conversant With the ObamaCare Dictionary of Medicine, It Depends on What the Meaning of "Keep" Is. This calls for new government agency in charge of Double-Think Document Production and Translation, with subagencies for Oversight, Training, and Enforcement.
Stinky the Clown at November 1, 2013 2:45 PM
I was talking to my sister who is on the more liberal side last night. She also has kids, a job, and a life. She is actually getting that the Obamacare is a failing program. She didn't know how abysmally bad it really is.
Jim P. at November 2, 2013 7:20 AM
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