17
Mar
Obama’s turning the rhetoric up a notch.
“Your employer, it’s estimated, would see premiums fall by as much as 3,000 percent,” said the president, “which means they could give you a raise.”
A White House press spokesman later said the president misspoke; he had meant to say annual premiums would drop by $3,000.
The number, $3,000, not 3,000 percent, came from a think-tank in November. Business Roundtable looked at various scenarios that might occur and one of those scenarios would save employers $3,000. However, anyone who’s been following this topic knows that no legislation actually passed in November. So, the legislation actually passed is not the scenario the Business Roundtable was looking at.
In simple terms, Obama’s lying.
Whether he knows it or not is the only question since those numbers have never been verified by anyone based on the legislation he’s now pushing, and are several months old.
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