Fact Check: Delivering on Promises
The President just went through a whole list of promises he supposedly kept. But there’s one promise he didn’t mention – it’s the promise he made repeatedly that his health plan would CUT premiums by an average of $2,500 per family. The Obama campaign also promised that that those reductions would occur within Obama’s first term. But as the below graph shows, while candidate Obama promised premiums would fall by $2,500 on average, premiums have risen by $3,065 since Barack Obama was elected President. Just last week, the New York Times noted that “in the 2008 campaign, Mr. Obama often told voters that he would lower premiums by $2,500 a year per family ‘by the end of my first term as president.’ It has not happened…”
The American people can’t trust the Obama Administration to lower their premiums, and given the record of Obamacare – which raised taxes on the middle class – they shouldn’t trust this Administration to cut taxes either.
