Democrats' Lies Regarding The Financial Consequences of Repealing Obamacare

It's been very frustrating to see Congressional Democrats and their out-of-office colleagues lying to the public every chance they get regarding the true costs of, and repeal of, Obamacare.

No less a public moment than John Boehner's assumption of the House gavel as Speaker allowed Frisco Nan to give an uncharacteristic major speech upon her demotion, complete with lies involving the cost of the recent health care monstrosity.

Howard Dean has been hectoring every conservative in sight on every cable program on which he can appear with lies involving the alleged $230B 'cost' of the repeal.

But the facts are quite different.

What one needs to understand is that the CBO is directed to assess the economic consequences of the bills it is given, not the reasonability of the bills' assumptions or projections.

In the case of Wonderboy's health care, all sorts of financial deceptions were employed to game an alleged reduction of government spending by imposing public health care and covering millions of new citizens.

Among the deceptions were:

-double counting $398B Medicare and Social Security revenues
-moving the so-called 'doctor fix' into a separate bill, so that the added-back costs of not imposing Medicare program cost controls on doctors' fees was not included in the health care bill.
-adding unrelated income tax hikes on dividends and capital gains, as well as other taxes, so that the bill would appear to be generating government revenues.
-counting 10 years of tax levies in the bill but only 6 years of provided health care services.
-failing to provide for the landslide of dumped, formerly corporate-provided health care consumers into apparently-cheaper government plans, thus overwhelming services and causing losses on the unrealistically-low initial government premiums.

The gross total sums of these financial deceits make any claims of saving taxpayers money ridiculous and simply false.

What's really disappointing is that we have elected officials, and former elected officials, widely spreading these lies as if they were solemn facts. No matter that these Democrats know they are abetting US financial self-destruction. The goal of a universal, public health care entitlement is more important to them than the continued health of the Republic.

More Lies From Max Baucus

Today's release of the latest CBO "scoring" of Max Baucus' Senate Finance Committee health care bill had the chairman grinning, claiming the bill is "paid for."

Yeah, right. More lies from Washington. More lies from Baucus.

Baucus' bill and statements are misleading on so many levels.

For example, Karl Rove pointed out the following in just a few minutes on Sean Hannity's Fox News program last night.

-The current Senate bill mandates huge taxes on so-called "Cadillac" health care plans. Many people possessing these plans are union workers, and the House has vowed that it will not tax these plans. So you either have taxes that Wonderboy said won't be levied, or a bill that suddenly is about $200B more in the red.

-The so-called 10-year scoring back loads "benefits," but front loads taxes, so the true spending is not counted, it being in further out years beyond the initial ten years.

-The usual, mythical cuts in current Medicare "waste and fraud" are used to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of the bill's expenses. Since Congress has never seen fit to actually reduce any of this "waste and fraud," it is simply not credible that, now, it will vanish, to fund this bill.

-This bill is only a Senate markup. It is calculated to simply make it out of the Senate and into conference with the House. The true, final bill will bear little resemblance to this one, so the CBO estimate won't really be relevant next month.

But even with all these financial considerations, this bill is wrong on some basics.

As with all the Democratic health care proposals, they ignore the easy, low-cost, non-system-wrecking options which include: provide tax preferenced health care premium treatment to all; allow interstate marketing of health insurance; institute tort reform to lower costs of defensive medicine; remove mandates, so people can buy precisely the insurance they desire.

None of these appear anywhere in Baucus' useless bill. Instead, it's a major grab for federal power to displace personal choice and liberty.

Baucus and the other Senate Democrats, and any Republican who votes for this pig, should be voted out of office.