Here we go again....
There's another "ticking time bomb" that Obama wants to defuse and defuse quickly.
He's fearmongering just like he did when he was selling the FAILED stimulus package.
This time the time bomb is health care.
CHICAGO (AP) -- President Barack Obama asked skeptical doctors Monday to get behind an overhaul of the nation's health care system, declaring it a "ticking time bomb" for the budget that could force America to "go the way of GM."
The difficulty of his task was evident when he said he's against capping awards in malpractice lawsuits, a top priority for doctors, and earned a smattering of boos—a remarkable public response to a popular president accustomed to cheering audiences.
"Smattering of boos"? "Remarkable public response"?
AP writer Charles Babington may not realize it, but there are A LOT of us across America that are booing Obama for various reasons.
Flying to his hometown to speak at the annual meeting here of the American Medical Association, Obama struck back forcefully at those speaking out against his efforts to reshape the health care delivery system to bring skyrocketing health care costs under control and expand coverage to the millions of uninsured.
He had his sharpest rhetoric yet for critics, calling them "naysayers," "fear-mongers" and peddlers of "Trojan horse" falsehoods who should be ignored. He warned interest groups and lobbyists not to use "fear tactics to paint any effort to achieve reform as an attempt to socialize medicine."
"There are those who will try and scuttle this opportunity no matter what," Obama said.
The president directly took on criticism on Sunday from former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, though not by name. Romney, widely expected to consider another run at the White House in 2012, called Obama's support for creating government-sponsored insurance as an option alongside private coverage a "Trojan horse" for a single-payer system like Great Britain's.
"When you hear the naysayers claim that I'm trying to bring about government-run health care, know this: they are not telling the truth," Obama said.
Obama is lying. He's being intentionally deceptive.
NO to government-run health care. NO to ObamaCare.
Paul Ryan and the Republicans have better options for reform.
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Among everything else, they tried to provide a government option in Hawaii JUST for children. After 7 months it failed, because people switched to the more cost-effective service run by the government. The government did not take into account the amount of people that would switch over (effectivly making it a single pay system) and could not afford to sustain the program.
Let's pretend it works, can you name one government entity that is not riddled with waste? Look at the VA. The VA is horribly run and provides horrible service, and this is for our VETERANS. You think we're going to do better for our poor? Probably not, when we just stopped many from receiving food stamps, because their $12/paycheck increase of government stimulus just bumped them over the food stamp line.
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