Oh, those Teabaggers are back at it again… Trying to scare the American public by spreading lies and distortions and “misinformation” about the Stalinization of Health Care Act of 2010.
Comes today a report from one of these right-wing extremist groups with the dubius claim that:
the law falls short of the president’s twin goal of controlling runaway costs, raising projected spending by about 1 percent over 10 years. That increase could get bigger, since Medicare cuts in the law may be unrealistic and unsustainable, the report warned.
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The report projected that Medicare cuts could drive about 15 percent of hospitals and other institutional providers into the red, “possibly jeopardizing access” to care for seniors.
Who’s this organization, praying on the fears of Americans, and distorting the purely beneficial results of Obamacare? The Department of Health and Human Services.
Naturally, likely hoping to avoid getting Olbermanned, the economists who authored the report included the caveat that it “does not represent the official position of the Obama administration.”
Nevertheless, Barack Obama is the CEO of the Federal Government, and a brach thereof just issued a report, based on the facts and their projections, that speaks negatively of his most favored piece of progressive legislation (so far). Should we expect Henry Waxman to summon him to testify in front of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce?
-Nick (ColoradoPatriot, from an undisclosed secret HQ)
I disagree with you Nick. The OBAMAnation is the President it’s the Voter that are the CEO’s of the Government.
And since this report comes from the Health and Human Services Dept. look for a “Corrected Revision”
This was known before health care reform passed.
Over the next decade, the Affordable Care Act expands coverage, and offsets the cost with a mix of new taxes and spending reductions. It’s not supposed to control costs over this time. It will provide coverage to some 30 million people who don’t have it, while only expanding total spending by less than one percent. That’s what it’s supposed to do.
Then, after 2019, the cost controls kick in and the total spending on health care will be reduced. Conservatives are attempting to draw sweeping conclusions from only half of the available information and make it fit into their anti-HCR talking points. An honest criticism would acknowledge the fact that this information was known a year ago and include post-2019 cost projections.
This demonstrates the “epistemic closure” of the conservative mind we’ve been hearing so much about lately.