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Tonight, President Barack Obama will address the nation in a press conference about his proposal for the federal government to takeover America’s health care system. Below are five questions Sen. DeMint has put forward that he hopes President Obama will finally answer tonight.
“We would all like to believe the president’s grand promises about health care. Unfortunately, we keep finding that his policies don’t match his promises," said Sen. DeMint. "Tonight, I hope we hear more than just rhetoric and straw man arguments, because Americans deserve real answers to the troubling facts we are learning about his plan to take over health care. Independent studies of his actual plan conclude that it would raise costs, increase the deficit, ration care, force more than 80 million Americans out of their current plans and force pro-life Americans to fund abortions with their tax dollars.”
Below are the top five questions Sen. DeMint would like the president to address:
1. If the major provisions of the health care bills will not kick in until 2013, four years from now, why the rush to pass a thousand-page bill before the August recess, a bill you admit that you haven’t fully read yourself?
2. You have said your health care bill will cut costs and not increase the deficit. But, independent analysis by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office contradicts both claims, saying it will raise costs and increase the deficit by $240 billion in the first ten years. What independent analysis will you provide that supports your claims and refutes CBO’s?
3. You have repeatedly said that your health care bill allows any American who likes their current employer-based plan to keep it. But the most comprehensive independent analysis available, by the Lewin Group, contradicts your claim and found your bill will force over 80 million Americans to lose their current coverage. Will you provide independent analysis to refute this study?
4. Your own record in the Senate reveals you spent years voting against nearly every reform to make health care more affordable and accessible, but this week you said that opponents of your plan are “content to perpetuate the status quo, [and] are, in fact, fighting reform on behalf of powerful special interests.” Which specific elected officials will you cite that have proposed to keep the status quo, and is that how you characterize the opposition of the 52 Blue Dog Democrats in the House and the moderate Democrats in the Senate?
5. Yes or no question: Will you guarantee pro-life Americans that, under your plan, they will not be forced to subsidize elective abortions?
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