There is a problem with so much of what the President is saying about his version of health care reform: it's flat-out wrong. One has to wonder why a man who ran on the promise that he would most certainly change "politics as usual" is employing the same old, tired liberal tactics of diversion and bait-and-switch. Either Barack Obama is insane when he promises that his plan will reduce costs, or his is lying through his teeth, or he is the die-in-the-wool far-Left liberal he ensured he wasn't.Charles Krauthammer starts his latest column with this gem:
In the 48 hours of June 15-16, President Obama lost the health care debate. First, a letter from the Congressional Budget Office to Sen. Edward Kennedy reported that his health committee's reform bill would add $1 trillion in debt over the next decade. Then the CBO reported that the other Senate bill, being written by the Finance Committee, would add $1.6 trillion. The central contradiction of Obamacare was fatally exposed: From his first address to Congress, Obama insisted on the dire need for restructuring the health care system because out-of-control costs were bankrupting the Treasury and wrecking the U.S. economy -- yet the Democrats' plans would make the problem worse.
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