For the preceding 12 hours, Republican representatives stood on the House floor and spouted callous and shameless lie after lie in a desperate last-ditch effort to stop reform. Perhaps they thought if enough of them lied enough times in a row, they could get away with it. They were wrong.
Watch our video showing all of the outrageous lies of the House debate -- and debunking each one.
CLAIM: GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER Former Majority Leader Bill First: "You hear a lot of people on the extreme say that socialized medicine is going to come in and control everything. ... That’s not what’s in these bills." [C-SPAN, 10/16/09]
CLAIM: ADD TO THE DEFICIT CNN's Lisa Sylvester: "The House health care bill will cost $1 trillion over 10 years. Democrats say the bill pays for itself, offset by taxes on the rich and built-in health care cost savings. According to the Congressional Budget Office it will reduce the deficit by $109 billion." [CNN, "Lou Dobbs Tonight," 11/9/09]
CLAIM: HARM SMALL BUSINESSES Small Business Majority Report: "Comprehensive healthcare reform... will reduce the cost to small businesses of providing health insurance to their employees" [The Economic Impact of Healthcare Reform on Small Business, 6/11/09]
CLAIM: KICK PEOPLE OFF THEIR INSURANCE FactCheck.org: Under Obama's health care plan "nobody would be forced to drop his or her current insurance." [FactCheck.org, 5/1/09]
CLAIM: CUT MEDICARE AARP: None of the health care reform proposals being considered by Congress would cut Medicare benefits. [AARP Website]
