So, it turns out that the Democrats not only lied about what is in the "health" care bill, they also withheld damning information that was presented to them before the health care vote:
The economic report released last week by Health and Human Services, which indicated that President Barack Obama's health care "reform" law would actually increase the cost of health care and impose higher costs on consumers, had been submitted to the office of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius more than a week before the Congressional votes on the bill, according to career HHS sources, who added that Sebelius's staff refused to review the document before the vote was taken.
"The reason we were given was that they did not want to influence the vote," says an HHS source. "Which is actually the point of having a review like this, you would think."
The analysis, performed by Medicare's Office of the Actuary, which in the past has been identified as a "nonpolitical" office, set off alarm bells when submitted. "We know a copy was sent to the White House via their legislative affairs staff," says the HHS staffer, "and there were a number of meetings here almost right after the analysis was submitted to the secretary's office. Everyone went into lockdown, and people here were too scared to go public with the report."
In the end, the report was released several weeks after the vote -- the review by the secretary's office reportedly took less than three days -- and bore a note that the analysis was not the official position of the Obama administration.
Well, like Nancy Pelosi said: "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it!" I guess she was the girl that would eat the yellow snow to find out what it was.
Well, we are finding out more of what's in the bill everyday, and nobody likes it. The two main purposes of any potential health care legislation were to (1) bring down costs and (2) extend coverage to those who do not have it and need it. And, as we have discovered, Obamacare fails to do both of these things, and in fact, actually makes the problems worse.
Some would say that this might be by design... Some would say that this will increase the problems with medical care, which will lead to the need for more "changes"... Some might say that this is what Democrats and Obama want in order to take complete control of health care, and by extension, the lives of every individual in America...
Oh, and those claims about "death panels" in the healthcare legislation that the mainstream media denounced as lies? They're real; it's called "rationed" care, and simply put, it's when the government appoints a group of unelected bureaucrats to decide what care is approved, how much care one is entitled to, and whether or not a person is "suitable" to receive any medical care at all. And the primary concern for these "officials" is cost, not the individual. Yep, sounds like a death panel to me:
(Peter Orszag, Obama's Director of the Office of Management and Budget)
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