Sunday, June 27, 2010

Obama Lied Says Time Magazine?!?!

It appears that even some members of the old school media are starting to realize that Obama's well phrased promises don't fare well when they run into the hard reality of the real world. Our President either knowingly lied as a means to achieve the ends of his social goals, or is hopelessly in over his head. Or both.


"If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan."


Throughout the long health care reform debate, that promise from President Obama was one of the few constants, made to reassure the bulk of Americans who already have insurance that the sweeping legislation would not have a downside. Just Tuesday, Obama tried to counter critics who say the new law contains a slew of unintended consequences. Announcing a fresh set of new insurance rules, he called the regulations "a true patients' bill of rights" and insisted that they are "not punitive."


But now that regulations about existing employer-sponsored plans have been issued, it's becoming clear that many of the 160 million Americans with job-based coverage will not, in fact, be able to keep what they currently have.


Republican critics of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act point to the Obama Administration's own estimates that by 2013, 39% to 69% of employer plans will be subject to new regulations and not grandfathered in, or exempted from the new rules. House minority leader John Boehner issued a press release about the new regulations with the headline "New ObamaCare Tagline Should Be 'If You Like Your Health Care Plan, Too Bad.' " - Time, June 24, 2010



But that's not as harsh as the words of Sherman Frederick of the Las Vegas Review-Journal:


"Make it official: Everything Barack Obama touches turns to mush. Not because he wants to screw up everything, but because he's simply in over his head as president of the United States.

He is the quintessential wrong guy at the wrong time, and the events of last week provided another exclamation point to that sentence."






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