Dec

Lies, lies and more lies from Democrats on health care

Listening to the democrats talk is like being a little kid listening to your parents read a fairy tale. Things were so bad, until Barack the Knight and his gang of comrades rode to our rescue to save us from ourselves and the evil ogre George W. Bush. The health care bill will “only” cost $898 billion, middle class taxes won’t go up, insurance premiums will go down, everyone who likes their insurance can keep it, the budget deficit will be magically reduced, and we’ll all live happily ever in the land of milk and honey.

Too bad it’s all a pack of lies. All of it.

When it comes to health care reform, the White House and its allies on Capitol Hill seem to live in an alternate universe.

The White House Council of Economic Advisers just released a report arguing that the reforms before Congress would reduce the growth in health costs, cut the federal budget deficits and produce thousands of dollars in benefits for the average family. The problem is that just a few days earlier a report from the president’s own chief health care actuary concluded that the bill the Senate is considering would actually increase U.S. health spending by $234 billion over the next 10 years and hurt seniors’ access to care.

But then, reformers have generally had trouble telling fact from fiction. Among the biggest whoppers:

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For more on how they’re hiding the true cost of the “reform” go here.