Obama’s Health Care Speech: A Furious Fusillade of Lies
The lies are coming so fast and so furious, I’m having a hard time keeping up. The most outrageous fabrications:
On the ‘public option’ (socialized medicine): “Despite all this, the insurance companies and their allies don’t like this idea. They argue that these private companies can’t fairly compete with the government. And they’d be right if taxpayers were subsidizing this public insurance option. But they won’t be. I have insisted that like any private insurance company, the public insurance option would have to be self-sufficient and rely on the premiums it collects. But by avoiding some of the overhead that gets eaten up at private companies by profits, excessive administrative costs and executive salaries, it could provide a good deal for consumers.”
Lie: The federal government already bankrupted Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Post Office, the nationalized auto companies, Amtrak and the like. Trillions and trillions and trillions…