Back To Their Tried And True Tactics

Obama says opposition is using scare tactics.

He’s half right.

“The number of uninsured Americans is growing, premiums are skyrocketing, and more people are being denied coverage every day.”

barackobama.com

“This is an ideological fight for the country. This is the top two percent influencing the big medical, lining the pockets of the conservative Democrats."

liberal talk host Ed Schultz

“I suffer no illusions that this will be an easy process. It will be hard. But I also know that nearly a century after Teddy Roosevelt first called for reform, the cost of our health care has weighed down our economy and the conscience of our nation long enough. So let there be no doubt: health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year."

Barack Obama

“Rapidly escalating health care costs are crushing family, business, and government budgets. Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums have doubled in the last 9 years, a rate 3 times faster than cumulative wage increases. This forces families to sit around the kitchen table to make impossible choices between paying rent or paying health premiums.”

whitehouse.gov

”Two out of three personal bankruptcies in 2007 were a result of medical debt… Without health care reform, health care spending will rise to $4.4 trillion, more than one‐fifth of the economy, by 2018 and the number of the uninsured will reach 61 million by 2020.”

Nancy Pelosi

“no one should have to choose between taking their child to a doctor and paying the rent.”

Democrats.org

“The problems with America's patchwork health care system are fast reaching a critical mass…And medical studies reveal an alarming extent of poor-quality care that affects everyone.”

David Kendall, quoted on the Democratic Leadership Council website

The “status quo" on health care is "threatening the financial stability of families, of businesses, and of government. It's unsustainable, and it has to change."

Barack Obama


Let’s not forget how Gore recounted the story of his mother paying three times the money for her medicine than he paid for the same medicine for his dog, and then was forced to admit he made it up.

Strange how Obama told the story this past week of the woman from Colorado who pays $700 per month for health insurance and found out they would not pay for her cancer treatments. Stranger still that when asked for information on the woman, like a name or a city – anything that they could verify – the White House all of a sudden developed severe memory loss.