President’s Health Law Two Years Later: More Broken Promises to to Families and Small Businesses
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The Promise: "If you like your plan, you can keep it" -
The Reality: According to the Administrations' own estimates, the health spending law will force most firms - up to 80 percent of small businesses to give up their current coverage by 2013. (
Furthermore, according to the latest
The Promise: "lower your premiums by
The Reality: According to the
The Promise: "lower the cost of health care for our families, our businesses and our government" -
The Reality: According to the Chief Actuary at the
The Promise: "it will create 4 million jobs - 400,000 jobs immediately" - Former Speaker
The Reality: According to the Congressional Budget Office Director, the new health law will result in 800,000 fewer jobs over the next decade. (Testimony of CBO Director
Further a recent Gallup survey demonstrates that 48 percent of small businesses are not hiring because of the potential costs of the new health law and 46 percent of small businesses are not hiring due to concerns about government regulations. (
The Promise: "We're not going to mess with
The Reality: The health spending law cut
The Promise: "I will not sign a [health care] plan that adds one dime to our deficits" -
The Reality: According to
The Promise: "I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than
The Reality: According to the
The Promise: "Health care reform is entitlement reform" - Former OMB Director
The Reality: In
The Promise: "Four million small businesses may be eligible for tax credits" -
The Reality: Despite paying more than
The Promise: "Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place." -
The Reality: The health law allows government subsidies to be used to buy health insurance that includes abortion coverage because it fails to codify the Hyde amendment's prohibition on federally funded abortions. (
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