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softaire
26-Sep-12, 11:48

Obama Health Care Costs UP $3000
In 2008 Candidate BO promised to reduce the average family cost of health care insurance premiums by $2500 per family. After four years, health care insurance premiums have risen by about $3000 per average family. Read the following, then go to the link to hear BO say it in his own words.
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Obama drives Health care costs $3000 had promised a $2500 cut


During his first run for president, Barack Obama made one very specific promise to voters: He would cut health insurance premiums for families by $2,500, and do so in his first term.

But it turns out that family premiums have increased by more than $3,000 since Obama's vow, according to the latest annual Kaiser Family Foundation employee health benefits survey.

Premiums for employer-provided family coverage rose $3,065 — 24% — from 2008 to 2012, the Kaiser survey found. Even if you start counting in 2009, premiums have climbed $2,370.

What's more, premiums climbed faster in Obama's four years than they did in the previous four under President Bush, the survey data show.

There's no question about what Obama was promising the country, since he repeated it constantly during his 2008 campaign.

In a debate with Sen. John McCain, for example, Obama said "the only thing we're going to try to do is lower costs so that those cost savings are passed onto you. And we estimate we can cut the average family's premium by about $2,500 per year."

www.rogerhedgecock.com
thumper
26-Sep-12, 12:13

You've got it all wrong Softie. Those numbers are all exaggerated to make Obama look bad and anyway, we're in the middle of a perfect storm of factors outside of his control to effect or correct in such a short amount of time. Also considering that it's congress' responsibility to pass laws attempting to repair all the damage that Bush spent 8 years inflicting, Obama can only do so much with the limited tools he has to work with, especially considering the obstructionist repuglicans and their radical, hate-mongering racist teabagger supporters.

Now lets get back to important issues like how Robot Romney hates the 47% and whatever he's hiding in his prior tax returns. The stink of racism is all over his cleverly coded comments and opposition to Obama's fine vision and leadership.
softaire
26-Sep-12, 12:31

Sorry... I used the wrong source again I'm sure. Maybe DM can set me straight. I wonder what the polls show. There must be data out there that proves this wrong.




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