Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on June 19, 2009

Pres. Barack Obama, 'I said what? You could keep your private health care insurance? Really, I said THAT? Nah, I didn't really mean it.'

Wow, it didn’t take long for a “pay no attention to that shyster behind the curtain” moment, did it? It’s a Chicago back-alley shell game, with our health and health care insurance and our choice of medical providers and trillions of taxpayer dollars, all being shuffled about under walnut shells… very suspicious. And troubling.

What’s with Prez BHO saying one thing one day, and the next day, it turns out to not be true? In our family’s house, we call that LYING. In the White House, it’s “rhetoric that shouldn’t be taken literally.”

Rescue me from this crap…

Heritage Foundation: Obama Walks Back Promise On Keeping Your Private Insurance
By Mike Gonzales
June 19, 2009

Less than 24 hours after Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner questioned the veracity of President Obama’s persistent claim that, under his health care proposals, “if you like your insurance package you can keep it”, the White House has begun to walk the President’s claim back. Turns out he didn’t really mean it.

According to the Associated Press, “White House officials suggest the president’s rhetoric shouldn’t be taken literally: What Obama really means is that government isn’t about to barge in and force people to change insurance.”

How’s that for change you can believe in?

Depending on how the public plan is designed in Congress, millions of Americans would lose their existing coverage. By opening the public plan to all employees and using Medicare rates, the Lewin Group, a nationally prominent econometrics firm, has said that the public plan could result in 119.1 million Americans being transitioned out of private coverage, including employer based coverage, into a public plan. With employers making the key decision, millions of Americans could lose their private coverage, regardless of their personal preferences in this matter.

When was the last time Washington passed major legislation, costing nearly $2 trillion dollars, overhauling a major sector of our economy that didn’t change our lives?

Oh yeah, TARP.

If you’re still not sure about how you feel about socialized health care, read any of the articles that are linked below. Read what those in the UK and Canada think of it.

Related reading on socialized / universal / government-run / nationalized / single-payer (take your pick, they’re all the same) health care:
Founding Bloggers: Horrific Health Care Headlines From UK – Our Socialized Medical Future!
Say Anything: Shocker: Democrats Exempt Union Workers From Tax On Health Care Benefits
Patterico’s Pontifications: Dialing 911 for Obamacare
Hot Air: Will ObamaCare threaten medical innovation? and Video: New RNC ad hits ABC for Obama infomercial and Oh my: Health care, amnesty, climate change bills all suddenly in trouble and Dems retreating on healthcare and Video: ObamaCare an “Old Joke”; Update: Cost now $1.6 trillion and White House throws Kennedy under the bus? and Obama: Let’s work together to destroy American health care by year’s end and Video: Are the elderly cost effective?
John Saarikko, Universal Health Care Info: The Truth Nobody Wants You To Know
Goodtimepolitics: No health care? Obama requirements individual mandate to purchase insurance and The White House Admits Americans Will Be Forced Out of Their Current Health Care Plans
America’s Watchtower: President Obama’s Latest Approval Rating (06/20/09)
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: Why Obama Hates Obamacare
The B.S. Report: Easy As ABC…President Obama’s Official “State-Run” Media
Verum Serum: New VS Daily Feature on Twitter: Gov Health Horror Story of the Day
JustOneMinute: KennedyCare
Clinging to G & G: How the NEW healthcare will effect me. Now, think about how it will effect you.
Michael Tanner, National Review Online: The Obamacare to Come, Dems’ health-care plans do not provide the reform most Americans seek
Hot Air: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/15/video-flashback-to-dems-screeching-about-medicare-cuts/ and Lieberman opposes public plan in ObamaCare and Government insurance will kill private insurance and Quotes of the day and Obama: Let’s work together to destroy American health care by year’s end and Video: Are the elderly cost effective?
Roll Call News: Baucus Aides Warn K Street
Infidels Paradise: Obama/Dems Cutting Tens Of Billions In Medicare After Saying It Was A Sin To Do So
John Goodman, Cato’s Letter (pdf): Five Myths of Socialized Medicine
The American Spectator: Obama Touts Safeway Health Program, But Dem Bill Would Kill It and Quebec Has Helicopters for Pepe Le Pew But Not Emergency Patients and Obama’s False Choice
Right Wing News: ObamaCare: Who Cares About The Poor And Elderly
Business and Media Institute: CNN Glosses Over Failure of Universal Health Care
Gateway Pundit: State Run Media Won’t Allow GOP to Respond to Obama Infomercial
SWAC Girl: Obama-ABC News propaganda machine team up to jam universal health care down Americans’ throats?
Glenallen Walken, Salon: Ask a Wingnut: The Wingnut explains why socialized healthcare sucks
Peter Roff, US News & World Report: The Growing Case Against Obama’s Healthcare Plan
Adam Baldwin, Big Hollywood: A “Cultural Fix”?: Global Citizen Educators Rethinking Sustainability into Population Control vs. Academic Freedom
Michelle Malkin: Get ready for health care tax-apalooza and The drug companies sell out and Just call him Barack “Emily Litella” Obama and The Obamacare horror story you won’t hear and Caught on tape: SEIU thuggery and Obamacare bogus statistic of the day and Obamacare bogus statistic of the day, Pt. 2 and Bad medicine: Obamacare poster art, Round 3 and Undercover at an Obama health care meet-up and Obamacare poster contest: Coming to a hospital near you!; Updated with new entries and Counterprotesting Obamacare and the ACORN/SEIU mob and Mobilizing against Obamacare and www.facesofgovernmenthealthcare.com and “Administration Is Open to Taxing Health Benefits” and Did Canadacare kill Natasha Richardson?
Chicago Tribune: AMA wary of Obama health plans
Pursuing Holiness: Railroaded Into Nationalized Health Care
Frugal Café Blog Zone: A “Must Read” » American Thinker: “Back to ACORN General Hospital” | Obama’s Single-Payer Health Care Nightmare and Nightmare: Heritage Foundation Exposes Universal Health Care Myths & Destruction of Free Market and The Sham of Socialism: Save America While There’s Still Time… ‘1984′ Prophesy and Heritage Foundation: Myth Exposed – American Health Care System Not Perfect, but Superior to Socialized Health Care and Cautionary Tale: ‘Prime Minister, You Have Run Out of Our Money’
GOPMom: Bring on National Health
World Net Daily: Government health care ‘an abyss’ financially – ‘I think there’s going to be no end for the claims’
Tim Slagle, Big Hollywood: Democrats — Why so Unhappy?
Matthew Moore, Telegraph.co.uk: Sufferers pull out teeth due to lack of dentists
Jewish World Review: Far East illustrates the limitations and dangers of universal health care
Daily Herald: Universal health care isn’t universal
Jim Blazsik: Did Socialized Medicine Have a Hand in Costing Natasha Richardson Her Life? and The Obama road to serfdom and the need for nationalized health care (and unrestricted abortion for that matter)
Pirate’s Cove: Obama Does Still Want A Government Run Insurance Company
NEOVATARA: A Conservative Health Care Solution
Positive Liberty: “If you think health care is expensive now…”
Homeland Stupidity: “Universal Health Care” Has Failed Again

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