Not satisfied with his egregious misrepresentation of John McCain’s Medicare proposal, Barack Obama has deployed another whopper about how McCain’s health care tax credit would compare to employer-based insurance:
This morning, we were offered a stunning bit of straight talk – an October surprise – from [McCain’s] top economic advisor, who actually said that the health insurance people currently get from their employer is – and I quote – `way better’ than the health care they would get if John McCain were president,” Obama told more than 8,000 people inside an arena this afternoon at James Madison University.
Only that’s not what the guy said. Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the advisor in question, and here’s how he responded to Obama’s latest prevarication:
The question I answered was, ‘Will the young and healthy leave their generous employer-sponsored coverage as the Obama campaign claims?’ My response was that, obviously, if they had better coverage, they would not change. The Obama campaign deliberately took the quote out of context. This continues their disgraceful campaign.
And disgraceful it has indeed been. As I pointed out in my recent piece for AmSpec, Obama has increasingly resorted to the hoary Democrat practice of frightening voters into supporting him.
Let’s hope the voters see through his slimy fear-mongering and send him packing next Tuesday.
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