AllahPundit Ups The Pot

Obama raised some eyebrows – and more than a few gorges – with his claim yesterday that his ObamaCare would be a lot like the Post Office. You know, that money losing train wreck  – er, model of government efficiency – that has been much in the news lately as it flops about bleeding red ink. AllahPundit makes the best comment on it that I have read yet:

Obama: Government health care will be like, um, the post office

Well, now I’m sold. If only he’d sweetened the pot and promised us it’d be like the DMV, I’d be ready to don an SEIU shirt and beat some protesters myself.

How bad was Obama yesterday at his supporter-only-packed propaganda fest? Bad enough that USA Today ran a sidebar about a number of his false statements. 

Some of the assertions that President Obama made about his health plan at Tuesday’s town-hall meeting are open to argument:

• “Under the reform we’re proposing, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”

Not necessarily. In an analysis of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee bill, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that 10 million workers could lose employer-provided benefits and would have to find other insurance.

• “Insurance companies basically get $177 billion of taxpayer money to provide services that Medicare already provides.”

About 10.2 million Medicare recipients are in Medicare Advantage. Under that program, the government pays insurers a set amount per Medicare beneficiary. Obama ridiculed it as costly and redundant, but the plan provides additional benefits, such as vision, dental and hearing, to seniors and helps coordinate health care for those with chronic conditions, says Robert Zirkelbach at the trade association, America’s Health Insurance Plans.

But wait! There’s more! Go over and read the whole thing. Obama was less than truthful, so much so that even the media is having to note the falsehoods.