Too funny in a Obama sort of way and part of his heralded cost saving to pay for his programs. Just add to the list of make believe along with the 2 trillion in savings:
WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday hailed what it described as a “historic agreement to lower drugs costs” for older Americans, but it was not immediately clear how much the government would reap in savings that could be used to pay for coverage of the uninsured.........
Congress and the White House are frantically seeking ways to help pay for legislation securing coverage for all Americans. The cost of the bill could top $1 trillion over 10 years.
The lobby for drug companies, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, said it had pledged $80 billion over 10 years to help “reform our troubled health care system.” The commitment came in a deal with the White House and Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana and chairman of the Finance Committee.Mr. Obama described the agreement as a “significant breakthrough on the road to health care reform.”
But Senate aides and drug company lobbyists said the $80 billion reflected total projected savings to the health care system and included unspecified future concessions, besides the drug discounts in the coverage gap.
Will Obama have misspoke on this as well?
The lies never stop coming. The truth is just to inconvenient for Obama.
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