President Obama didn’t have much to say about health care during his State of the Union address last night. But what he did say fell short on the AP fact check.
OBAMA: “Our health care law relies on a reformed private market, not a government program.”
THE FACTS: That’s only half true. About half of the more than 30 million uninsured Americans expected to gain coverage through the health care law will be enrolled in a government program. Medicaid, the federal-state program for low-income people, will be expanded starting in 2014 to cover childless adults living near the poverty line.
The other half will be enrolled in private health plans through new state-based insurance markets. But many of them will be receiving federal subsidies to make their premiums more affordable. And that’s a government program, too.
Starting in 2014 most Americans will be required to carry health coverage, either through an employer, by buying their own plan, or through a government program. (Read More)
He didn’t just stretch the truth about health care. He stretched the truth, fantasied or lied on everything from war spending, green energy, taxes, immigration and more. The one thing he was totally honest about was his intention to continue to work around Congress any chance he gets.
Update: Linked by Maggie who has details of Obama’s General Motors deception and the political donations made by GM.
Tags: fact check, fails, health care, obama, SOTU
The Equivocator in Chief is this year’s hands down winner of The Beltway Proboscis Prize.
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Half-true is about as close to the truth you ever get with a commie. Even half-true is rare.
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[...] Motors, is just one deception in Obama’s State of the Union address. The Lonely Conservative notes: He didn’t just stretch the truth about health care. He stretched the truth, fantasied or lied on [...]
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Careful on the “fact checks”. Even those aren’t entirely accurate. For instance, many of the “tax breaks” for the oil industry apply to ALL industries, such as depreciation of capital equipment and foreign tax credits. That is in stark contrast to the many green energy subsidies where they not only subsidize the manufacturing of only green energy projects, but they heavily subsidize consumers buying those green products, like I showed you a while back about that farm in upstate NY…
http://dirt-mag.com/2011/11/03/a-farm-thats-its-own-utility/
Michelle Bachmann made an astute observation that Obama was pretty proud of the fact that the federal government will be the producer of green energy and also the consumer of green energy. Most in the private sector cannot afford to buy them because they’re not cost effective and takes many years to recoup initial investment costs. It’s sort of like being the first to buy a new computer that becomes obsolete before you reach the break-even point.
There was also another fact check about his snide comment about getting rid of stupid regulation such as the EPA treating dairy farms milk spills similar to oil/petroleum and toxic waste spills that he claimed was one of “his” successes. The EPA denies they were going to do that, however the exemption was slow in being approved and there was a huge outcry from many Republican representatives early last year before the EPA acted.
Sometimes someone needs to fact check the fact checkers…
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It sounds like Obama wants the federal government to become the provider of health care and the producer of green energy for the profit of his 1% supporters.
I was amused to hear him speak of the role of the military, he just gutted military spending so create cash flow for his ever expanding government!
Obama is just continuing the spin that Clinton perfected in his Lewinsky years!
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Another thing to remember is that this comes from his friends, not his enemies. Just think how bad it would it would be with an impartial judge!
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