December 17, 2009
Axelrod: Shouldn’t have called the left ‘insane’
David Axelrod is walking back his comment that the left is “insane” for trying to defeat health care reform.
December 16, 2009
Guy who told the GOP to ‘stop frightening’ Americans uses scare tactics to push health care reform
The president’s admonition to avoid scare tactics must only apply to his opponents.
December 15, 2009
Standing on the ‘precipice’ of health care reform
Speaking about health care reform, the president says the nation is “on the precipice of an achievement that’s eluded Congresses and presidents for generations.”
December 9, 2009
No ‘comprehensive’ study on federal cancer efforts
Candidate promised to ‘immediately’ launch cancer-coordination study. President didn’t do it.
September 9, 2009
Claiming preventive care ‘saves money’
During his address to Congress about health care, President Obama claimed that forcing insurance companies to cover preventive care will save money. The truth is much different.
Lying about man who died after losing insurance
In his speech to Congress, President Obama cited the case of an Illinois man he claimed died because an insurance company delayed his treatment, but that’s not how he died.
August 20, 2009
Big fat lie: Controlling obesity will save $1 trillion
President Obama believes Medicare can save $1 trillion if Americans lose weight. Well, not during this generation.
August 15, 2009
Repeating health care whoppers in weekly address
President Obama read from the same, misleading script during his Weekly Radio Address, repeating lies he told at town hall meetings earlier this week.
August 14, 2009
Lying in Montana: You can keep your doctor
The Congressional Budget Office and independent studies both say the health care reform proposal will force millions out of their insurance plans, so why does the president keep telling us we’ll keep our doctors?
Lying in Montana: President says, again, that American’s pay $6,000 more for health care
American’s spend about $6,000 total for health care. So do other countries spend nothing?
Lying in Montana: President again says Medicare Advantage is duplicative
During a town hall meeting in Belgrade, Mont., President Obama repeated his lie from Tuesday that costs in Medicare can be cut by eliminating the Medicare Advantage program because it provides overlapping coverage.
August 11, 2009
Gaffe in Portsmouth: Government-option will work like the Post Office!
Not really sure what’s worse here, that the president dissed the Postal Service, or that he committed the ultimate Washington gaffe by telling the truth.
Gaffe and lie in Portsmouth: Got a toothache? Get a colonoscopy
How can the president think the American people are going to follow him toward health care reform when he exhibits such ignorance about medicine?
Lying in Portsmouth: AARP supports health care bill … oh, and it won’t cut Medicare benefits
President Obama suggested today that the AARP has endorsed his health care proposals, a charge the organization spent the day before denying.
Lying in Portsmouth: ‘I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter’
During a town hall meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., the president flat-out lied to the people in attendance about his past support of a government-run, single-payer health care system.