{"id":8454,"date":"2011-01-27T17:42:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T22:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8454"},"modified":"2011-01-27T17:44:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T22:44:30","slug":"two-more-broken-promises-you-can-keep-your-insurance-and-obamacare-will-reduce-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8454\/two-more-broken-promises-you-can-keep-your-insurance-and-obamacare-will-reduce-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Two More Broken Promises:  &#8220;You Can Keep Your Insurance,&#8221; and ObamaCare Will Reduce Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there <em>any<\/em> promise that Barack Obama has kept as President?\u00a0 He certainly made plenty of them, only to break them.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it appears that we have two more.\u00a0 Two very big ones.\u00a0 Testifying before the House Budget Committee this week, Medicare Chief Actuary Richard Foster was asked a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/01\/26\/medicare-actuary-doubts-health-care-law-hold-costs\/\" target=\"_blank\">series of &#8220;true&#8221; or &#8220;false&#8221; questions<\/a> by Rep. Tom McClintock (R &#8211; California).\u00a0 Replying to McClintock&#8217;s question whether Obama&#8217;s famous pledge that &#8220;If you like your present health insurance, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/editorials\/examiner-editorial-if-you-your-health-insurance-too-bad\" target=\"_blank\">you can keep it<\/a>&#8221; was true or false, Foster replied, &#8220;not true in all cases.&#8221;\u00a0 And when asked whether ObamaCare would reduce costs as he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/issues\/healthcare\/index_campaign.php\" target=\"_blank\">explicitly guaranteed<\/a>, Foster replied, &#8220;I would say false, more so than true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If the political left clings to their &#8220;Bush Lied!&#8221; belief, where are they now and what do they have to say about Barack Obama?\u00a0 Just curious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there any promise that Barack Obama has kept as President?\u00a0 He certainly made plenty of them, only to break them. Now, it appears that we have two more.\u00a0 Two very big ones.\u00a0 Testifying before the House Budget Committee this week, Medicare Chief Actuary Richard Foster was asked a series of &#8220;true&#8221; or &#8220;false&#8221; questions [&hellip;]<\/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":[143,70,12,465,24,35,28],"class_list":["post-8454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget","tag-health-care","tag-health-care-reform","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454","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=8454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8457,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions\/8457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}