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Health Care reform: Obama's Stunning Admission

hypocritexposer

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January 29th, 2010
Obama's Stunning Admission
Posted by Tom Bevan

There's been a remarkable amount of coverage of President Obama's appearance at the House Republican retreat today, but I haven't seen anyone focus on the President's rather stunning admission about the Democrats' health care legislation (Video):

The last thing I will say, though -- let me say this about health care and the health care debate, because I think it also bears on a whole lot of other issues. If you look at the package that we've presented -- and there's some stray cats and dogs that got in there that we were eliminating, we were in the process of eliminating. For example, we said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your -- if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you're not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making. And I think thatsome of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge. [emphasis added]

If we take this statement at face value, President Obama is admitting the the health care bills passed by either the House or Senate (or both) contained provisions which were "snuck in" - presumably by Democratic members and perhaps on behalf of certain lobbyists - that would have in fact prevented people from keeping their current insurance and/or choosing the doctor they want.

This was one of the core debates on health care throughout last year: Would President Obama and the Democrats' legislation allow government to come between citizens and their choice of doctors and insurers? Obama promised it wouldn't. Republicans said it would, and this was one of the aspects of the legislation that led them to characterize it as a government takeover of health care - the same characterization that Obama chastized the GOP for today.

So it's a bit of shock to find out now - from the President himself, no less - that one or both of the bills that passed Congress late last year (the House passed its version in late November, the Senate on Christmas Eve Day) contained language that would have violated this pledge.

http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2010/01/29/obamas-stunning-admission/
 

Tam

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This guy is like a snake oil salesman, he is out trying to convince the masses to buy his goods sight unseen when he has absolutely no Idea of what he is selling. :roll:
He has no idea what Pelosi and Reid hid in those 2000+ pages just like he didn't know they hid the protection of the AIG bonuses and 9000 earmarks in the Ominbus bill before he signed it. Does he care at all about his credibility when he and his White House Staff are out on the talk shows attacking Republicans and Fox for pointing out those pesky little earmarks that nobody cares about and those stray cats and dogs hidden in the Health Care Bill. No he is betting the public will respect the office he holds and therefore respect him and BUY HIS LIES. Only after he is forced to admit he is wrong will he give an inch but then it is only after more attacks on those pointing out the truth. :mad:
 
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