The Big Lie:
“First of all, nobody is talking about some government takeover of health care. I’m tired of hearing that. I have been as clear as I can be. Under the reform I’ve proposed, if you like your doctor you keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan, you keep your health care plan. These folks need to stop scaring everybody, you know?” –Barack Obama And we’re tired of you and your lies.
What he said then:
“My commitment is to make sure that we have universal healthcare for all Americans by the end of my first term as president. … I would hope that we could set up a system that allows those who can go through their employer to access a federal system or a state pool of some sort. But I don’t think we’re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There’s going to be potentially some transition process.” –Barack Obama in 2007
Pointing fingers:
“It’s almost immoral what [private insurers] are doing. Of course they’ve been immoral all along in how they have treated the people that they insure. … They are the villains in this.” –House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
We’re all just pawns of the insurance companies:
“I hope my colleagues won’t fall for a sucker punch like this. These health insurance companies and people like them are trying to load these town meetings for visual impact on television. They want to show thousands of people screaming socialism and try to overcome the public sentiment, which now favors health care reform. … There are health insurance companies that are … very profitable and they don’t want to see this reform so they are helping to organize these rallies.” –Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Somehow, this is not reassuring:
“Let me assure you: There will be a health care reform bill passed and it will make a big difference in the lives of the American people.” –Nancy Pelosi
Cat’s out of the bag:
“I think if we get a good public option, it could lead to single payer and that’s the best way to reach single payer. … I think the best way we’re gonna get single payer, the only way, is to have a public option and demonstrate its strength and its power.” –Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)
As if that’s a good thing:
“One expert from a conservative think tank called this Congress ‘as active and productive as any I can remember. Its true — we have passed more serious, substantive laws than any Congress since President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term.” –Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)
