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Townhall Finance
Obama Claims
Obamacare is Working – You Just Haven’t Noticed
Michael Schaus
Oct 04, 2014
I’m beginning to think that Obama doesn’t actually have any speech
writers or talking-point authors… He’s just recycling the set of
talking points he was handed in the first four years of his tenure.
During a recent Q&A session at a campaign event in Princeton
Indiana, the President trotted out the tried-and-failed talking points
of 2012 to defend his signature healthcare law. According to the Free
Beacon:
“We are seeing almost a double-digit increase in health-care costs
every year,” General Manager Mihir Paranjape said. “Do you think that
trend is going to go down, and what can we do to control that trend?”
Obamacare might be toxic for some swing-state Liberals, but I’m sure it
warmed the cockles of Obama’s heart to hear someone ask the government
for help with a government-created problem. And so began roughly four
minutes of our Campaigner-in-Chief stumbling through the English
language:
“That’s really interesting, you’re gonna have to talk to Henry,” Obama
said, referring to the company’s CEO, Henry Jackson. “The question is
whether you guys are shopping effectively enough.”
Oh, really? So, I guess it’s my fault I’m paying twice as much as I
used to for half the overall coverage? You don’t think it could have a
teensy-tiny bit to do with the more than 11,000 pages of Obamacare
regulations that have been put into effect? Because that would probably
be my first thought. Of course our snake oil healthcare
salesman-in-chief wasn’t quite done:
“Over the course of the last four years, premiums have gone up at the
slowest rate in the last 50 years.”
This utterance is almost a carbon copy (that means “exact” copy for
anyone who is unfamiliar with the world before iPads) of something
Obama said back in 2012. It wasn’t true then, and it isn’t true today.
Premiums have not slowed down. In fact, they’re climbing much faster
than normal...
Read the rest of the article at Townhall Finance
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