re: #164 JohninLondon

I am afraid I prefer John Boehner’s account of the series of outrageous lies Obama propounded in Congress :

amd to be dragging up Wilson’s interruption - which occurred after several of the lies Boehner referred to - seems to me to be straining at a gnat when the REAL issue is the very nature of the health-care reforms.

In the UK it is a resigning matter if a Minister deliberately lies to Parliament. Not a bad tradition, maybe.

Ok, so I listened to that. Let me clarify.

Obama is letting the Bush tax cuts lapse and paying for healthcare with that. That is not a tax hike, and it is not adding to the deficit. The Bush tax cuts lasted for 10 years and not perpetuity for a reason.

Boehner is saying that employers may drop their health coverage and just take the fine after the plan takes effect. However, there is no fine for employers if they drop their coverage now. Employers provide health insurance as a competitive advantage, because they want their employees to be more secure, or because the unions mandate it/provide it. The bill would add another reason to that list.

There is no specific language banning illegal immigrants from government healthcare in the bill because there are already laws doing that. Illegal immigrants aren’t eligible for federal aid, and this bill wouldn’t change that.

Medicare cuts aren’t a part of the bill, but they look like an inevitability, unless we want to increase our deficit more.

Americans are scared to death, Boehner says. I wonder why.