Because chances are, he’s lying to you. Case in point, the White House’s new “Reality Check” website about health care “reform”,
A new Web site launched Monday by the Obama administration to rebut alleged disinformation about the administration’s efforts to reform the health care system claims that reform “would not add one penny to the deficit”–despite the fact that the two health care reform bills that have been analyzed by the Congressional Budget Office are predicted by the CBO to increase the national debt by $239 billion and $1.042 trillion respectively.
The administration, meanwhile, has not produced any health-care reform legislation that has been independently determined to be deficit-neutral.
Appearing on CNN yesterday, Linda Douglass, communications director for the White House Office of Health Reform, said that the new Web site that premiered today has been designed to defeat disinformation and make sure people “can get the facts” about health care reform.“You know, one of the things we’re going to be doing this week is making available a Web site where people can go to get the facts about health insurance reform,” Douglass said in an interview with CNN’s Howard Kurtz. “There’s a lot of misinformation, and there is, as I said in the video, a lot of disinformation. That’s information that’s meant to mislead you. So, we’re going to have a new site where people can go, they can get the facts, they can share it with family and friends.”
But in its first day of operation the Web site claimed that the reform “will not add one penny to the deficit,” a claim that cannot be made for any bill that has been drafted in Congress and analyzed by the CBO.
Who to believe….the Obama administration, which has an obvious partisan interest in lying to people about the effects of the health care bills which its Party is pushing, or the Congressional Budget Office, which has always had a reputation for being reasonably non-partisan.
And c’mon, do they really think people are stupid enough to believe that the nationalisation of one-sixth of the economy isn’t going to create some rather large deficits? Financially speaking, the only way that could be avoided is by raising taxes extensively, including taxes on the middle class (which, IIRC, Obama promised not to do back during the campaign, so we know they won’t be taking that route, right???)
This, in a nutshell, exemplifies what the Obama administration is and will continue to be – non-transparency, smokescreen, falsehood, chicanery, and waste.
Tags: Economy, Healthcare, Politics
