21
Sep
President Obama continued his sales pitch for health care reform this weekend, making the rounds of the Sunday talk show circuit. During an interview with George Stephanopoulos that aired today, Obama said, “We’re not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you.” To say this was an unexpected sentiment coming from this President would [...]
Tags: capitalism, health care debate, health care misconceptions
14
Sep
President Obama has repeated a couple of heart-wrenching stories during his sales pitches for his health care reforms this summer. A little less than a month ago, I got curious about one of these stories — the one about the man whose insurance policy was revoked while he was in the middle of chemotherapy. According [...]
Tags: health care debate, health care misconceptions, health care reform, Otto Raddatz
13
Sep
In support of his health care plan, President Obama often refers to the ‘hidden taxes’ insured families pay on behalf of the uninsured. On multiple occasions, he’s stated, “the average family pays a thousand dollars in extra premiums to pay for people going to the emergency room who don’t have health insurance.” Factcheck.org did a little investigating [...]
3
Sep
Thanks to Ed Morrissey for providing this clip of my Senator, Dick Durbin, at a townhall event yesterday evening. Of course, I didn’t know about the townhall until I saw this clip, on a national web site, but I’m sure that’s how Durbin wanted it anyway.
Not only was Durbin clueless when it came to individual [...]
Tags: Canadian health care system, health care debate, health care misconceptions, health care reform
