Anyone who can lie that easily doesn't belong in a (D) administration.

For those of you who don't get it, there is no reduction, no savings or anything else except for a hollow promise by the insurance companies to REDUCE THE RATE OF GROWTH of our health insurance costs to a level below what is forecast. In the same ten years, the industry can expect to increase their own profit by at least that much and, given that they're ONLY in it for the $$$$, I expect much, much more.

It's pretty much the same as any of us saying we saved a cool million by not buying that loft in NYC, or that we're millionaires because that's how much we'll have made by the time we can afford to retire at age 97. It's not real and there's not a reason in the world they would follow through once they've killed a public, not-for-profit option.

If these are the standards we can expect from the Obama administration regarding logic and the use of language, then there's not much hope for progress. You can call it whatever you like - manipulation, massaging the message, etc... - but we've had enough lies. It's time for some hard truths and for our government to serve the people, not the corporations.

If we want universal coverage, we're going to have to fight like hell for it. There's too damn much money at stake for the corporations and the politicians they own to give in without a fight to the death - and, make no mistake, it is us or them. They don't care whether we're healthy or not, as long as the river of money keeps flowing their way.