Predictably, Barack Obama’s pregame show was not only cheesy and trite, it contained a number of hopelessly implausible claims about his health care plan:
My health care plan includes improving information technology, requires coverage for preventive care and pre-existing conditions and lowers health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year.
I think not.
His plan does not lower premiums by $2,500, or any set amount. Obama hopes that by spending $50 billion over five years on electronic medical records and by improving access to proven disease management programs, among other steps, consumers will end up saving money.
And are Obama’s “hopes” justified?
Many economists are skeptical those savings can be achieved, but even if they are, it’s not a certainty that every dollar would be passed on to consumers in the form of lower premiums.
Not that Obama has any real intention of pursuing his health care plan as currently structured. After he is elected, he will remember that he is a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan and will sign on to the Kennedy plan.
So, all of this BS about saving families $2,500 is just something to fill time on the Obama show.
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