Post by unlawflcombatnt on Dec 16, 2009 3:55:13 GMT -6
Obama has just gone on the air and barfed up an outright lie to save his own cowardly ass.
Obama stated that if the current public option-less and Medicare buy-in-less health care bill isn't passed, it will "blow a hole in Medicare."
It won't do any such thing, and Obama knows it. If it isn't passed it won't have any net effect on Medicare solvency. Any money that would have been saved from reducing Medicare benefits was going to be pumped back into private insurers' pockets in the form of premium subsidies.
Obama may well become a bigger liar than George W. Bush.
Furthermore, in case anyone has forgotten, his assholiness actually campaigned against an individual mandate--i.e., against a legal requirement that all Americans buy health insurance.
Now he favors it, since it helps his new rich friends in the Health Insurance Racket.
This isn't "change we can believe in."
This is the "deceit we always suspected."
Hats off to Howard Dean and Arianna Huffington--for calling a spade a spade--and characterizing this so-called compromise as worse than nothing.
Republicans aren't the problem. They were never going to support anything that reduced the profits of their buddies in the health insurance industry.
Ditto for Senator Joe Liebertard, who should be under investigation for accepting bribes & kickbacks from the health insurance industry.
No, the real enemies are the spineless alleged "progressives", like Sherrod Brown, Tom Harkin, Ron Wyden, & Barbara Boxer--who continue to claim "there are a lot of other good things in the bill."
Horse manure. There aren't any. All that remains in the bill are a lot of unenforceable provisions, and a major-league handout to health insurers and Big Pharma.
This isn't "change you can believe in."
It's the "sell-out you hoped wouldn't happen."
Obama stated that if the current public option-less and Medicare buy-in-less health care bill isn't passed, it will "blow a hole in Medicare."
It won't do any such thing, and Obama knows it. If it isn't passed it won't have any net effect on Medicare solvency. Any money that would have been saved from reducing Medicare benefits was going to be pumped back into private insurers' pockets in the form of premium subsidies.
Obama may well become a bigger liar than George W. Bush.
Furthermore, in case anyone has forgotten, his assholiness actually campaigned against an individual mandate--i.e., against a legal requirement that all Americans buy health insurance.
Now he favors it, since it helps his new rich friends in the Health Insurance Racket.
This isn't "change we can believe in."
This is the "deceit we always suspected."
Hats off to Howard Dean and Arianna Huffington--for calling a spade a spade--and characterizing this so-called compromise as worse than nothing.
Republicans aren't the problem. They were never going to support anything that reduced the profits of their buddies in the health insurance industry.
Ditto for Senator Joe Liebertard, who should be under investigation for accepting bribes & kickbacks from the health insurance industry.
No, the real enemies are the spineless alleged "progressives", like Sherrod Brown, Tom Harkin, Ron Wyden, & Barbara Boxer--who continue to claim "there are a lot of other good things in the bill."
Horse manure. There aren't any. All that remains in the bill are a lot of unenforceable provisions, and a major-league handout to health insurers and Big Pharma.
This isn't "change you can believe in."
It's the "sell-out you hoped wouldn't happen."