We should have "an honest debate" on health care, said Barack Obama in his Aug. 22 radio address, "not one dominated by willful misrepresentations and outright distortions."
Among the "phony claims" made against the House bill, says the president, are that it provides funding for abortions, guarantees coverage for illegal aliens, contains "death panels" and represents a federal takeover of the health-care system.
Is Obama right? Are critics misleading and frightening folks with falsehoods about Obamacare?
Well, let us inspect each of those "phony claims."
Does the House bill fund abortions? No.
As for illegal aliens, Obama is right again. They are not covered in any of the five bills.
What about the "death panels." No, they are not in the bill. Nor is there any doctor's right to perform euthanasia or mercy-killing.
[OK, Buchanan obviously throws in a lot of howevers in the article, so obviously I intentionally slanted his slants.]
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