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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: combjelly who wrote (514926)9/21/2009 12:53:28 PM
From: Brumar89   of 1576965
 
Obama's record as a serial liar isn't in dispute. He even revealed on Leno last spring that he jokes with his daughters about his campaign promises being lies.

As to his lies on health reform, he's been fact-checked by lots of establishment publications - Fortune magazine I'll use as an example:


NEW YORK (FORTUNE) -- In promoting his health-care agenda, President Obama has repeatedly reassured Americans that they can keep their existing health plans -- and that the benefits and access they prize will be enhanced through reform.

A close reading of the two main bills, one backed by Democrats in the House and the other issued by Sen. Edward Kennedy's Health committee, contradict the President's assurances.
To be sure, it isn't easy to comb through their 2,000 pages of tortured legal language. But page by page, the bills reveal a web of restrictions, fines, and mandates that would radically change your health-care coverage.
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4. Freedom to keep your existing plan

This is the freedom that the President keeps emphasizing. Yet the bills appear to say otherwise.

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money.cnn.com
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