Jeffery H. Anderson at The Weekly Standard‘s blog, points out that President Obama is 0-14 in his promises about health care “reform.” Below is Anderson’s list of broken promises that I’ve copied verbatim, but have added the bullets for easy reading of the prevarications:
• would not cause any individuals or families to lose their health-care plans,
• would not be paid for by cutting seniors’ Medicare benefits,
• would not bend the health-care cost-curve up (but instead would bend it down),
• would not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year,
• would not raise Americans’ health insurance premiums (by $2,100 a year in the individual market) but instead would lower them (by $2,500),
• would not put the federal government in control of health care,
• would not require Americans to buy health insurers’ product under penalty of law,
• would not cost more than $900 billion over ten years (and certainly not $2.5 trillion, like the Congressional Budget Office says it would cost),
• would not raise deficits,
• would not liberalize rules preventing taxpayer funding of abortions,
• would increase competition and choice,
• would leave what’s good in place while fixing what’s broken,
• would be bipartisan, and
•would be passed in an open and transparent manner with the C-SPAN cameras rolling for all to see.
