Administration Lied About Health Care Bill Cost -- Updated

A lie is when you are not telling the truth and you know you are not telling the truth. By that standard, yes, the administration lied about the health care bill cost.

DEMOCRATS HID DAMNING HEALTH CARE REPORT FROM PUBLIC UNTIL A MONTH AFTER VOTE

More hope and change–

A damning health care report generated by actuaries at the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department was given to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius more than a week before the health care vote. She hid the report from the public until a month after democrats rammed their nationalized health care bill through Congress.

The results from the report were troubling. The report released by Medicare and Medicaid actuaries shows that medical costs will skyrocket rising $389 billion 10 years. 14 million will lose their employer-based coverage. Millions of Americans will be left without insurance. And, millions more may be dumped into the already overwhelmed Medicaid system. 4 million American families will be hit with tax penalties under this new law.

Of course, these were ALL things that President Obama and Democratic leaders assured us would not happen. [Emphasis added.]

Read it all.

Now the Democrats are pushing a bill to impose price controls in insurers.

Price controls like this never work. Insurers have to make a profit, or they will leave the business.

That is exactly what the Democrats want. If the insurers flee the health insurance market, government will claim it is forced to step in with a single payer system. That is the end game for the price control legislation.

Update: Here is a report suggesting that the White House was involved in covering up the negative report in order to get the Health Care Bill passed.