BHO OMMITS FACTS IN CLEVELAND SPEECH

President Obama’s remarks during his recent Cleveland visit had many omissions and one huge “misspeak” according to the Associated Press as reported on:  http://search.comcast.net/?cat=Web&con=homepage&q=the+associated+press

 

Claiming employers would see a “3,000 percent decrease”  in employee health care insurance which would allow employers to give out raises  was later corrected by the Whitehouse.  It probably was a flub. 

 

But his omission of important facts were intentional.  According to the article, “The statistics Obama based his claims on come from two sources. In both cases, the caveats got left out.”  How honest of him!

 

The article points out, “There’s no question premiums are still going to keep going up,” said Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a research clearinghouse on the health care system. “There are pieces of reform that will hopefully keep them from going up as fast. But it would be miraculous if premiums actually went down relative to where they are today.”

 

It also says, “The claim that people buying coverage individually would save 14 percent to 20 percent comes from the same budget office report, prepared in November for Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind. But the presidential sound bite fails to convey the full picture.

The budget office concluded that premiums for people buying their own coverage would go up by an average of 10 percent to 13 percent, compared with the levels they’d reach without the legislation. That’s mainly because policies in the individual insurance market would provide more comprehensive benefits than they do today.” (emphasis added)

I can’t help but wonder if he is so full of himself that he believes his own rhetoric. Or is he purposefully deceiving his audience to further his agenda instead of theirs?

 

It reminds me of a saying I heard years ago – “Often wrong, but never in doubt”