Top Five Health Care Reform Lies-debunked

There’s a great talking point memo flowing on the left (using almost all White House and Moveon.org sourcing) that claims there are 5 lies the right is making about healthcare. Ironically, it includes some lies. Here’s the reality for the right and the independents. You can read the various bills yourself, or (dare I suggest it)…..question the accuracy and honesty of the White House and Moveon.org Really, everyone wants some sort of reform (despite the claim from the left that people want the status quo), so let’s do it right. This shouldn’t be about left/right, and it doesn’t have to be that way.
-Scott

Lie #1: President Obama wants to euthanize your grandma!!!
The FIRST healthcare bill did say that coverage would be at least $2 (that’s two dollars) a year, and determined by a commission led by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This was changed to an independent commission in the second bill, and removed in the 3rd bill. However, coverage cannot be unlimited as there’s no way to pay 300x$1mil ($300trillion). Even over 30-40yrs that’s almost the entire US GDP going just to medical. SO, someone will have to decide if a 99yr old woman w cancer gets her chemo paid for or gets pain pills (this is the specific example Obama gave at a town hall, video avail at YouTube. Search on “Obama take the pill”)

Lie #2: Democrats are going to outlaw private insurance and force you into a government plan!!!
No. No one says Democrats are going to “outlaw” private insurance. Dems claim people are, but no one is. What people are claiming is that insurance companies w budgets in the hundreds of billions cannot compete with the hundreds of TRILLIONS that unlimited, free Obamacare will provide. It’s like when Walmart moves into a town or a Lowes. How does the small general store or hardware store stay in business? They can’t. This is the concern people have-that a govt program will drive insurers out of business and leave us w “single-payer healthcare”, govt healthcare; socialist healthcare.

Lie #3: President Obama wants to implement Soviet-style rationing!!!

This is absolutely the truth, he’s said it several times. He uses the words “single-payer healthcare”, but if the healthcare is provided only by the government (because no one can compete with the govt program)….then it’s socialist.

Lie #4: Obama is secretly plotting to cut senior citizens’ Medicare benefits!!!

This isn’t part of the healthcare debate as far as I’ve seen-not at least the healthcare reform debate. However, Obama said just this week that Medicare and Medicaid will be in the red soon, and benefits will not be going out when they do, so he wants a new healthcare program to cover those cuts that will automatically have to happen when they go red. Video avail upon req, but I’m pretty sure Breitbart has it if not YouTube. Surely the White House has a transcript of his town halls this week.

Lie #5: Obama’s health care plan will bankrupt America!!!
The math is simpler than even what the unquestioning supporters on the left claim. There are 73,000,000 baby boomers retiring. If each one got a heart bybass and or some sort of catastrophic thing happen (you know…like a sickness leading to death), then the cost goes over $1,000,000 per person real fast. Now, what’s 73mil x 1mil? 73 TRILLION. The Congressional Budget Office says the plan doesn’t work. Bill Clinton’s old economic advisors say it doesn’t work, and the list of others who says it’s not mathematically feasible is long. I see it as simple math. 300million Americans. 1mil in lifetime medical costs each (we all get bigtime sick eventually, plus accidents, drug use/abuse, and so forth). What’s 300million times 1 million? Now take the national GDP of 12trillion a year.

Unlimited coverage for 300million people is not affordable, and if we choose a limit on coverage, then there’s got to be someone deciding who gets coverage, how much, and when do they get cut off; call it a “commission” as the first bill did, or call it a “death panel” as Sarah Palin did.