All politicians craft their words carefully, and most fudge the facts occasionally, but the current occupant of the White House uses language in such an Orwellian fashion that it’s starting to become a little scary. Here are a couple of samples from Obama’s latest remarks on his health care plan:
I believe it’s time to give the American people more control over their own health insurance.
The reality is precisely the reverse. His plan would remove patient choice in every important insurance transaction, including whether to purchase coverage at all. His plan includes an individual mandate that, in effect, makes it federal crime not to buy health insurance.
It would also remove any real patient choice in type and extent of coverage. Because his plan imposes strict benefit mandates on insurance companies, patients will be forced to buy government-approved policies that include coverage that they neither want nor need.
It incorporates the best ideas from Democrats and Republicans.
Huh? For a year, this man has been telling the American people that the Republicans are “the party of no” and have offered zero reform ideas. Moreover, as this video demonstrates, he clearly wasn’t interested in what he heard from the GOP at last last week’s summit.
The most important ideas the Republicans have offered are (genuine) tort reform, giving patients the ability to buy coverage across state lines, the elimination of tax favoritism for certain types of health plans and an end to mandate madness. Obama has ignored all of these.
The list of his Orwellian statements on “reform” (an Orwellian term itself, as he uses it) goes on and on. My only hope that Obama is merely a liar. If this man actually believes what he said today, he’s crazy. Maybe that’s why this video of today’s speech (via Hot Air) shows him with guys in white coats.
As expected, Obama also threatened to jam the bill down America’s throat using reconciliation (a.k.a. the nuclear option). I cover that empty threat here.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
PRESIDENT ORWELL GIVES ANOTHER REFORM SPEECH
From HealthcareBS via Hot Air:
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If does not matter if it is true or not, just as long as it sounds like he cares for us. Most Americans would not know if he is lying or not. They are only interested in Dancing with the Stars, or some reality show.
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