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My first thought when the White House launched their fink-on-your-neighbors email campaign was that the fishiest comments concerning the health control bill (it is about control and power, not care and not insurance) were coming from the administration. Bryan Riley, writing for American Thinker, calls it the Obama Administration: Home of the Whopper. He examines 10 whoppers contained in a WaPo op-ed by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

Two of my “favorites”:

Whopper Number 5: Americans shouldn’t waste their time trying to understand the details of Obama’s proposal.

SEBELIUS: [W]e can’t let the details distract us from the huge benefits that reform will bring. Nor should we let ourselves be distracted by attacks that try to use the complexity of health reform to freeze Americans in inaction.

FACT: An insurance agent who advised his clients to ignore the fine print in a proposed policy could wind up in jail. Anyone who says “don’t worry about the details, this is too complex for you to understand anyway,” probably has something to hide.

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Whopper Number 9: Government health care will deliver incredible results at low prices.

SEBELIUS: Instead, we can make investments in prevention, wellness and health information technology that will allow the health-care system to deliver incredible results at prices we can all afford.

FACT: Because government programs under-pay doctors and hospitals for their services, those health care providers are forced to make up the difference by shifting costs to people who have insurance. According to Milliman, Inc., Medicare and Medicaid under-payments increase the cost of health insurance by $88 billion. Instead of fixing this problem, President Obama has proposed even more Medicare cuts.

Read the whole thing. This FISHY bill can still be stopped, and it needs to be stopped. Secretary Sebelius, your explanations are about as fishy as they come. Please turn yourself in immediately.

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