In case you’re not keeping track at home, he’s full of shit. He’s now at the point of promising anything and everything to gain support, including a promise of salary increases by employers who have absolutely no requirement to fulfill his promise. He might as well say we’re all getting Skittle-pooping unicorns and Corvettes.
As Allahpundit says, this whole process long ago ceased being about finding the best solution for health care reform. It’s now all about passing legislation — any legislation — with the name “health care reform” at the top.
The current version guts Medicare, uses taxpayer funds for abortions, places bureaucrats between patients and doctors, hikes taxes, and will actually increase costs? Who cares. We need to pass something, anything, to make it seem to the SEIU and George Soros that we’re worth keeping around.
Which is why we’re now at the point where the president of the United States is promising you, a private sector employee, a salary increase because his legislation will cut insurance premiums by 3000% when he knows it will do no such thing. Pathetic.
22. March 2010 at 4:21 pm
Although still not quite logical, nor expected, the math is this:
A reduction “by” is not the same as a reduction “of.” A reduction “by” means you divide (by), ie if an employer pays $10,000, a 3000% reduction is $10,000/ 3000% = $333. A reduction “of” would be $10,000 multiplied by 3000% giving you the crazy numbers, and that wouldn’t be a reduction! 3000% “of” $333 is $10,000, so it’s a 3000% reduction from $10,000. It would have been simpler if he had said employers may be paying up to 3% “of” their current cost. But then what sounds more profound, 3 or 3000? After-all it is politics.