Fraud in selling health care law exposed
Image via WikipediaThe Democrats said that under their plan, health care costs would go down and those who wanted to keep their insurance would be able to. A government official, though, says neither is true.There is more.
Appearing Wednesday at a House Budget Committee hearing, Medicare Chief Actuary Richard Foster said ObamaCare will not hold down health care costs, as President Obama and the Democrats promised it would.
"I would say false, more so than true," Fostered responded when Republican Rep. Tom McClintock of California asked him to answer either "true" or "false" to whether the Democrats' health care overhaul would be a cost-saver.
McClintock moved on, asking Foster: "The other promise, if you like your plan, you can keep it. True or false?"
"Not true in all cases," was the reply.
While the Democrats have tried to obscure the facts — the party itself issued a statement claiming that its plan "lowers costs for every patient" — Foster's office has taken a straightforward approach in analyzing the issue.
Health care costs will go up, it said, because more Americans will be seeking medical treatment in larger numbers. It's simple math.
The office of the actuary is also projecting that about half of the 14.8 million who are in private Medicare Advantage plans will lose their coverage by 2017.
Foster's office has projected, as well, that what the Democrats are calling reform "would collectively reduce the number of people with employer-sponsored health coverage by about 14 million."
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It did not take the Republicans long to produce government witnesses to expose the false and misleading statements used to sell Obamacare. It is important to establish the facts behind this scam so voters will know more of the reasons why the bill needs to be repealed. It also puts Democrats defending the bill in a bind that should wind up hurting them in the 2012 election.
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