"Obama's credibility crisis"

Of particular interest in this Washington Examiner Editorial (April 25, 2010) is the writer's observation that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius admitted that "We don't know how much [the Health Care Bill] is going to cost." Really? A careful reading of the bill would have revealed that it will increase spending and therefore add to our national debt. Meanwhile, as Ms. Sebelius was claiming the administration didn't know what their health plan would cost,  President Obama was assuring us that it would "reduce government health care spending." . . . .  Just one of the areas this editorial notes in which Obama's statements do not square with the facts.     ~~~   S. Lane

On Obamacare, the president and his appointees said repeatedly over the last year that it would reduce government health care spending. Yet now comes Kathleen Sebelius, Obama's Department of Health and Human Services secretary, confessing that "We don't know how much it's going to cost." Why is Sebelius only now saying this when her own department just made public a report obviously months in preparation that projected government health care costs overall will go up, not down? That same HHS report also said Obamacare's Medicare cuts could put 15 percent of all hospitals out of business, making treatment harder to get and more expensive, especially for seniors.

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