Promise vs. Performance

A Senate committee Tuesday voted 14-9 to pass the Baucus bill. That's my favorite bill. Now, it has to be combined with the Dodd bill, as well as I come from a state where they say "Dumb Dodd." Not when he's got great bills that he is pushing!

Whatever the mutations the House puts together before this is said and done, you able to bet that this bill, as bad as it is, is about to get much, much worse.

Neil Cavuto pointed out Tuesday on his program that President Obama has maintained we must have health care reform right now, even though it's not going to take effect until 2013 — which is weird, why the hurry?

He told us that any tax increases needed would come later, but now, it looks like they're going to kick in later this year. I thought he meant a little later when he said "later."

He promised lower premiums and it looks like instead of lower, they'll be higher. He promised nobody is going to wait for a doctor, but as it turns out, it looks like a little of will wait longer.

This reform plan is definitely turning out to be something that wasn't what I saw advertised on TV. He said consumers need protection from the insurers. Mr. President, I'm beginning to think that the consumers — the Americans need protection from you guys and Congress.

The president keeps telling us that his health care reform public option obsession is –- well, I do not even know what they're talking about. I'm for choice and competition.

But I think we've already made a choice. America doesn't want a public option. No more government. I think it's kind of big as it is. Most polls have shown this. The town hall meetings have shown that.

The vast most of us believe this so-called public option would lead to a single-payer universal health care plan. There's a lot of us that who think that kind of socialism is best left to Canada and other places.

Oh, but don't worry, because Barack Obama doesn't want that kind of option either.

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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter, because, frankly, we historically have had an employer-based system in this country with private insurers, and for us to transition to a system like that, I believe, would be too disruptive. So, I'm not promoting a single-payer plan: