Yesterday, Obama promised that if you get health insurance through your employer, his plan for health care reform would drop the premiums by as much as 3000 PERCENT and your employer will give you a raise.
Amazing!
This guy will say anything.
Video.
Transcript
OBAMA: [M]y proposal would bring down the cost of health care for families, for businesses, and for the federal government. So Americans buying comparable coverage to what they have today -- I already said this -- would see premiums fall by 14 to 20 percent -- that’s not my numbers, that’s what the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says -- for Americans who get their insurance through the workplace. How many people are getting insurance through their jobs right now? Raise your hands. All right. Well, a lot of those folks, your employer it’s estimated would see premiums fall by as much as 3,000 percent [sic], which means they could give you a raise.
How can something fall by 3,000 percent?
Can you imagine what the reaction would be if President Bush said that?
Here's another problem, from the same event:
OBAMA: And she upped her deductible last year to the minimum [sic], the highest possible deductible.
What?
Obama the Brilliant.
2 comments:
It's obivious the President meant to say $3,000
A 14-20% drop in premiums could save the employer $3,000 a year.
For example, if the employer is paying $15,000 a year for insurance premiums and the premiums drop 20% that is a savings of $3,000.
Yeah, it's obvious that Obama was off teleprompter.
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