By future wrote:

"Obama will shift the health care cost to retiree consumers by empanelling a price control Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) by which payment is limited by a schedule."
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This falsehood came from Betsy McCaughey, discredited paid GOP/Big Health shill of "Death Panel" fame. Instead of being misled by anti-reform lies, the new health reform law website explains what it's doing RIGHT NOW to cut costs AND better protect Americans' health:

Affordable Care Act Patient's Bill of Rights
http://www.healthcare.gov/law/provisions...

Preserving Your Choice of Doctors & Ensuring Emergency Care http://www.healthcare.gov/law/provisions...

Eliminating annual & lifetime limits on benefits
http://www.healthcare.gov/law/provisions...

Making Medicare Rx Drugs More Affordable; 50% reduction on branded drugs
http://www.healthcare.gov/law/provisions...
/prescription/drugdiscounts.html

Small Business Health Insurance Tax Credits to 4M small biz
http://www.healthcare.gov/law/timeline
/index.html#event2-pane

New Medicare fraud-busting program which saved $4 billion last year & will save billions more http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/

Medicare & Medicaid Innovation Center - help doctors, hospitals & providers revitalize & sustain Medicare, Medicaid & CHIPS
http://innovations.cms.gov/

New rules make insurers spend 80-85% of YOUR dollar on actual health services for YOU
http://www.healthcare.gov/news/blog/rate...

Preventive healthcare that can make YOU healthier. 75% of health care cost is spent on preventable diseases...so let's prevent 'em & lower costs! http://www.healthcare.gov/law/provisions...

2014 Health Insurance Exchanges to make providers compete for your business by offering better-priced premiums & quality service

..And so much more..Learn what Obama's law's actually doing to improve the system, reduce costs, PRESERVE MEDICARE, protect Americans & you'll understand why GOP Paul Ryan's claim "Obama/Dems are doing nothing" is One Big Fat Lie!!

The Tax Policy Center agrees with the writer. It wrote: "The Ryan Roadmap charts a radical course that, if they understood it, few Americans likely would want to follow." It also challenged Ryan's false claim that his Plan would reduce deficits:

TAX POLICY CENTER - RYAN PLAN WOULD INCREASE DEFICITS TO UNSUSTAINABLE LEVELS WHILE CUTTING BENEFITS
"Contrary to claims the Ryan plan is fiscally responsible -- which reflect a misunderstanding of CBO's analysis of the proposal -- the plan would leave the fed budget in dire straits for decades as a result of its massive tax cuts for wealthy households and its diversion of Social Security payroll taxes to private accounts. The plan attempts to reduce deficits and debt many decades into the future by making deep cuts in Social Security's defined benefits and by eliminating guaranteed Medicare benefits and substantially cutting back on medical assistance for low-income families and seniors. Yet even with these sweeping changes, the plan fails to achieve its fiscal goal, since federal debt under the proposal would rise over the next four decades to unsustainable levels far in excess of 100 percent of GDP. The proposal also would seriously erode employer-sponsored health insurance coverage for working Americans and their families without instituting the accompanying reforms in health insurance needed to create a viable substitute."

What hypocrits! GOP's favorite whining son, Paul Ryan, accusing Democrats of "demagoguing" his plan to change Medicare into a voucher system that'll burden elderly with costs & cut benefits. Ryan accused the President of lying!

But CBO's 4.5.11 Analysis of Ryan's Plan confirms what Pres & Dems said:

"..beneficiaries would bear a much larger share of their health care costs.. That greater burden would require them to reduce their use of health care services"(p19)

"Private insurers would have flexibility to limit benefits, change co-payments, manage utilization & control provider networks... The significant increase in payments by beneficiaries might affect quality of care they receive." (p.25)

"...would relieve some of cost burden on states by repealing Medicaid provisions in (new health care law) & eliminating certain benefits for the elderly."(p26)

Who's lying now - CBO analysis was sent to Ryan, but he didn't share with voters. Surprise! http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/121xx/doc1212......

Peterclarke - - it's an expression I don't like to use but in this instance is appropriate; you don't know what you're talking about. You're so off base you should be embarrassed for just spouting off without the facts to support your claims.

First, Obama was 8 years in the Illinois Senate then 4 in US Senate. He ws also the President of the Harvard Law Review, a Civil Rights lawyer and a Professor/ Lecturer in US Constitution Law at University of Chicago. Unlike McCain and Palin, he authored his own two books, which both were best-sellers. In Chicago, he was heavily involved in education, sitting on many non-profit boards.

His record in the US Senate so far has outstripped McCain. McCain deserves credit for the landmark McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill, his single major achievement, in addition to many bills where he was partially involved. Obama authored 6 or so "major laws" on subjects ranging from ethics to education. A significant achievement, testament to his leadership, is the bipartisan legislation which requires all police interogations to be videotaped. Now a national model, this legislation has increased convictions while reducing jailhouse beatings. He has also authored the first major ethics reform bill since Watergate, and anti-nuclear proliferation bill, the Google for Government Bill, requiring Federal contracts to be posted on the internet, he sponsored a law increasing tax credits for low-income workers, negotiated welfare reform, and promoted increased subsidies for childcare, to name but a few. You can visit these on KOS below.

Obama has served on the Senate Committee for Foreign Relations, the Environment and Public Works and Veterans Affairs Committees, the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. He gave the now famous keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Convention.

This is just a small summary of Obama's many accomplishments which are considerable, not all listed here, and prepare him well for the road ahead to the presidency.

May I suggest that before you make claims about people's qualifications, you first check out some facts rather than misrepresent their record as less than it actually is.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/158767/output...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/14/...

Heres a sad fact for the Palin lovers. She lies. A liar who thinks nothing of standing before a TV audience of 37,000,000 and misleading Amnerican voters.

In her acceptance speech, Palin mockingly accused Obama of being "a man who had authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform", then she inferred that John McCain was the guy with his name on all the laws and reforms. Well, in Newsweek and KOS (links below) Palin has been busted by the facts in US Senate/Government records.

Her disparagement of Obama was 100% false. In fact, in just 4 years in the US Senate, following 8 in the Illinois Senate, Obama has successfully authored more major laws than McCain has in his 22 years in the Senate! Shocking, isn't it. Both candidates' records and laws are well detailed on KOS. Obama has not only authored more laws than McCain, his laws are more impressive, national and global in stature and relevant to the issues facing the American middle class today. According to KOS researcher/ writer; "For all the grand talk of experience, it is hard to imagine anyone looking at this record and presuming McCain should be the one trumpeting experience. And it is entirely shameless and dishonorable that McCain should abide the lies (i.e. that Obama has no legislative accomplishments)that came from his running mate". A powerful condemnation of Palin's dishonesty and McCain's complicity.

If Sarah Palin is so comfortable lying to the American public about a major point of someone else's honor in her historic introduction, it probably wasn't her first time. She carried it off like a pro, falsely convincing viewers that Obama is ill qualified with less experience than herself, whereas nothing could be farther from the truth. How can voters trust her now? A troubling question of ethics and impropriety in a campaign already tarnished by lies and false content of attack ads .
http://www.newsweek.com/id/158767/output...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/14/...