{"id":16330,"date":"2012-10-29T18:45:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T22:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16330"},"modified":"2012-10-29T18:45:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T22:45:55","slug":"obama-is-lying-to-swing-state-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16330\/obama-is-lying-to-swing-state-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Is Lying to Swing State Seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/aroy\/2012\/10\/26\/obamas-second-term-agenda-making-obamacares-taxes-spending-and-regulations-permanent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Avik Roy<\/a>, an outside health care policy advisor to the Romney campaign, reminds us why you should never trust a clever lawyer or accountant:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obamacare was cleverly designed such that its most politically toxic provisions wouldn\u2019t go into effect until after the election. In addition, the Obama administration spent billions of unauthorized taxpayer dollars this year and last so that the impact of its cuts wouldn\u2019t be felt until after the election.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2013: Tax increases and Medicare cuts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the next ten years, Obamacare cuts $716 billion from the Medicare program in order to fund its $1.9 trillion in new health spending over the same period. $156 billion of those cuts come from the market-oriented Medicare Advantage program, and those Medicare Advantage cuts start to kick in in 2013. 27 percent of all seniors are enrolled in Medicare Advantage, including 32 percent in Wisconsin and 36 percent in Ohio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope the Romney campaign has been hammering home the part about the Obama Administration hiding the true cost of Obamacare from voters in swing states like Wisconsin and Ohio through aggressive direct mail and ad buys in those states because people need to know that before they decide whether to renew the incumbent\u2019s contract.<\/p>\n<p>For my part, a White House that deliberately hides the truth behind unauthorized spending and delayed implementation timelines is one that can\u2019t be trusted; now or in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avik Roy, an outside health care policy advisor to the Romney campaign, reminds us why you should never trust a clever lawyer or accountant: Obamacare was cleverly designed such that its most politically toxic provisions wouldn\u2019t go into effect until after the election. In addition, the Obama administration spent billions of unauthorized taxpayer dollars this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,143,1193,3308,160,35,1793,3291,1500],"class_list":["post-16330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign","tag-health","tag-mitt-romney","tag-obamacare","tag-ohio","tag-swing-state","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16330","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16330"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16336,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16330\/revisions\/16336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}