Durbin Implies Obama Not ‘Telling the Truth’ about Health Care Premium

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Durbin Implies Obama Not ‘Telling the Truth’ about Health Care Premiums

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

By Melanie Hunter-Omar

(CNSNews.com) – Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Wednesday contradicted President Barack Obama on whether the health care reform bill will lead to a decrease in health care premiums.

Durbin claimed that rates would go up, while the president said the rates would go down.

“Anyone who would stand before you and say well, if you pass health care reform, next year's health care premiums are going down, I don't think is telling the truth. I think it is likely they would go up, but what we are trying to do is slow the rate of increase,” Durbin said, speaking on the Senate floor.

Compare Durbin’s remarks to what President Barack Obama said during a speech at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa., on Monday.

“Our cost-cutting measures mirror most of the proposals in the current Senate bill, which reduces most people’s premiums and brings down our deficit by up to $1 trillion over the next decade because we’re spending our health care dollars more wisely,” the president said.

“Those aren’t my numbers. Those aren’t my numbers --they are the savings determined by the Congressional Budget Office, which is the nonpartisan, independent referee of Congress for what things cost,” Obama added.

But as CNSNews.com reported, the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the final Senate health care bill indicates that it would impose a mandatory $15,000 annual fee on middle-class families that earn greater than 400 percent annually of the federal poverty level. That means $88,200 for a family of four.

Among the five basic facts that the CBO analysis cites about the bill is that “Your family insurance plan – if your employer drops your coverage and you are forced to buy it on your own – will cost about $15,000 per year when the legislation is in full force in 2016.”

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“Anyone who would stand before you and say well, if you pass health care reform, next year's health care premiums are going down, I don't think is telling the truth. I think it is likely they would go up, but what we are trying to do is slow the rate of increase,” Durbin said, speaking on the Senate floor.

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Durbin, as a liberal, is being very charitable. The liberals who passed this debacle KNOW they will drive costs up and quality down. They will make it HARDER for people to access care by massively escalating coverage and simultaneously driving doctors and hospitals out of business.

They don't care.

It is all about power. They really BELIEVE they know what is best for you and they intend to make sure you get it whether you want it or not.