Once again, Obama is found to have broken a key promise, this one that you can keep your current health insurance under the proposed health care reform bill that is being considered currently stalled in The House.
Last week President Obama addressed the GOP and said this (video):
The last thing I will say, though — let me say this about health care and the health care debate, because I think it also bears on a whole lot of other issues. If you look at the package that we’ve presented — and there’s some stray cats and dogs that got in there that we were eliminating, we were in the process of eliminating. For example, we said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your — if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge.
I have the following points to make on this statement:
- He immediately pre-empts the debate by framing the broken promises as “stray cats and dogs”. Oh how cuddly and worthy of our sympathy those stray cats and dogs are.
- He claims they were “in the process of eliminating” those pesky, but cute and cuddly broken promises but how can we verify that they were being eliminated? And until a final bill emerges, we’ll never know for sure if they were eliminated.
- He’s beginning to talk of health care reform in the past tense. Is he conceding defeat, even sub-consciously?
- The fact that provisions are being admittedly “snuck in” should alone be cause enough for a full stop and full analysis of exactly what is in these monstrous bills.
For a quick recap of the health care reform process, under the banner of Hope and Change:
- Democrats routinely “bought” votes to pass healthcare
- Despite campaign promises of transparency, closed-door negotiations abound
- Provisions are being “snuck in” that inflame key points of contention
- Promises have admittedly been broken, which is akin to lying, something we expect from the average politician, but not from someone who’s primary platform throughout the campaign was Change.
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