{"id":11460,"date":"2011-09-28T17:13:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T21:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11460"},"modified":"2011-09-29T10:02:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T14:02:05","slug":"obama-said-obamacare-would-reduce-premiums-premiums-jumped-9-for-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11460\/obama-said-obamacare-would-reduce-premiums-premiums-jumped-9-for-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Then: Obama Said ObamaCare Would Reduce Premiums; Now: Premiums Jumped 9% for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

So how many times must Barack Obama be wrong – flatly, indisputably, wholly, precisely wrong – before he withdraws from American political life out of pure shame?<\/p>\n

Today provided another example.\u00a0 In selling ObamaCare, his cornerstone “achievement,” to the American people, Obama promised<\/a> on March 8, 2010 that his bill “reduces most people’s premiums.”\u00a0 So what is actually happened in just the first year since he made that assurance?\u00a0 The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust report that health insurance premiums rose 9% this year<\/a>.\u00a0 Employers’ average yearly premium for families climbed from $13,770 last year to $15,073 this year, and from $5,049 to $5,429 for individuals.<\/p>\n

Perhaps this explains why Obama’s Justice Department curiously didn’t seek<\/a> to delay United States Supreme Court review of ObamaCare this week – maybe even Obama suddenly wants it overturned as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So how many times must Barack Obama be wrong – flatly, indisputably, wholly, precisely wrong – before he withdraws from American political life out of pure shame? Today provided another example.\u00a0 In selling ObamaCare, his cornerstone “achievement,” to the American people, Obama promised on March 8, 2010 that his bill “reduces most people’s premiums.”\u00a0 So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3074,12,465,24,35,3075],"class_list":["post-11460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cost","tag-health-care","tag-health-care-reform","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-premiums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11464,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions\/11464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}