Amateur Hour at "Health Care Reform" Pt. 1

I know it would be impolite to call the President a liar. The sad thing is that I heard the President utter an outrageous falsehood on the radio this AM, and after listening to over half an hour of his health care speech at Arcadia College, I didn‘t hear the same lie I heard this morning, I heard others. So, rather than call Obama a liar, I will just point out some of his more outrageous lies and let you be the judge. I’ll also point out his utter ignorance or incompetence in understanding how business works and point out places where he puts up more straw men than at a Wizard of Oz tryout!



At 4:36

"The insurance companies continue to ration health care based on who's sick and who's healthy. On who can pay and who can't pay."

Funny! Most healthy people don't need a lot of health care, mostly sick people. But, Mr. President, did you know that my grocery store rations food based on who can pay and who can't pay? Same with my gas station, my cable company...virtually every one that everyone in America does business with. How do they do things in Chicago, Mr. President? To each according to his need and from each according to his ability? Thought so.

At 5:17

"And that's why we need to pass health care reform not next year, not five years from now, not ten years from now, but no!"

Pass the reform now, but wait for the benefits to kick in in 2013? Some sense of urgency there!

At 6:15

If not now, when? If not us, who?

Oh, pul-leeze! Fortune cookie platitudes like this could be used for anything. Let's buy everyone iin the country a Prius and a pony. If not now, when? If not us, who? Sheesh! You'd think at least he'd be original in his banalities!

Then he goes into a spiel about how we've wanted health care reform for a hundred years. Funny! I've spent better than fifty years on the planet and don't recall that it was ever this big a problem. It certainly wasn't the same problem that faced Teddy Roosevelt! That reminds me of commercials I've seen for bans that tout 200 years of banking experience. Because banking was so much alike then as now! /sarcasm
We failed to pass what Obama would accept as reform through "good and bad economic times and Republican and Democrat administrations." Maybe the idea, as you conceive it, Mr. Obama, is so bad that it was rejected soundly by both parties?

At 8:36

"It's not like you can go shopping!"

It won't be if you get your way! But, instead of opening markets across state lines, your plan will eventually put all private insurance companies out of business!

(And before some liberal bleats about scare tactics, did you hear how many times the President evoked fear of not getting insurance, not getting a job or going bankrupt because of some medical condition? Sheesh!

Too much disingenuousness for just one post. My sympathies for those who will sit through all four videos.

Cross Posted at Say Anything