Flag you, Mr. President!

If anything ever seemed more fishy...






1. The President’s overpromise that everyone can keep their health plan
2. Putting the government in charge of your health insurance
3. Waiting in line
4. Government-mandated benefits
5. Preventive care does not save money (in the aggregate)
6. The House bill would increase short-term, 10th year, and long-term budget deficits
7. The President was incorrect — AARP opposes the bill
8. The bills would take Medicare savings needed for solvency and spend them on a new entitlement
9. Medicare is not a good example of government-run health care because Medicare is fiscally unsustainable
10. Even if the public option drops out of legislation, other parts of these bills would put private insurance under government control
11. The President says the public option will keep private insurers honest at the same time he proposes cutting payments to private insurers competing with the Medicare public option
12. The pending bills would move more cost-benefit decisions from insurers to people chosen by the government
13. Guaranteed renewal and guaranteed issue
14. The President says “we may be able to get even more than” the $80 B of budgetary savings that the pharmaceutical industry thought was a ceiling promised by the White House.
15. The President says he’s not “promoting” a single-payer plan, but the only concern he raises is a disruptive transition.
16. Many examples suggest that the government cannot compete on a level playing field with private firms.
17. The President trashes the U.S. Postal Service and undermines the case that government can run a complex health system.
18. The President understates the annual cost of new spending by a factor of two.
19. The President says that 2/3 of the offsets come from Medicare and Medicaid spending, while the only public estimate (for the House Bill) shows 21% instead. He also advocates a tax proposal that Congressional Democrats killed last Winter.
20. There are 46 million people who are technically uninsured, but the target population is probably one-third to one-half that size.

In case you forgot that address: flag@whitehouse.gov


Cross posted here.