During a town hall meeting on health care, "ABC didn't even allow ads that opposed the president's health care plan to be aired."
"Medicare and Medicaid are the single biggest drivers of the federal deficit and the federal debt by a huge margin."
Even high estimates for an early draft of the health care plan are "less than the $1.8 trillion cost of the Bush tax cuts."
"A new poll shows 62 percent support the president's plan to reform health care. That means ... letting you choose between keeping the private insurance you have and a public health insurance plan."
Under a public health care option, 120 million Americans will "lose what they now get from private companies and be forced onto the government-run rolls as businesses decide it is more cost-effective for them to drop coverage."
Sixty-two percent of all personal bankruptcies are "caused by medical problems."
A public option for health care would end private insurance "because the private insurance people will not be able to compete with a government option."
The Democrats propose "a government-controlled health care plan that will deprive roughly 120 million Americans of their current health care coverage."
"Democrats have failed to answer the most basic question of how they want to pay for the more than $1 trillion of health care spending."
The economic stimulus bill created a council that's "modeled after the national board that controls Britain’s health system."
"When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft."
In the 1970s, "the swine flu broke out . . . under another Democrat, President Jimmy Carter."
Washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough "makes a huge difference" in reducing transmission of the flu.
Claims that former Sen. Tom Daschle said, "Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them."
"Teddy Roosevelt first called for (health care) reform nearly a century ago."
"Under the Obama plan . . . all the health care in this country is eventually going to be run by the government."
"The biggest job of the surgeon general is to translate health care and health care needs into plain English."
"Senator McCain would pay for part of his (health care) plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare — $882-billion worth."
Measures in Barack Obama's health plan could "lower health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year."
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