OBAMACARE REALITY CHECK

From PolitiFact.com we get their "Top 16 myths about the health care law" (with myth perpetuating cartoons) ...


1. The health care rations care, like systems in Canada and Great Britain. 
False.

2. The health care law has "death panels." 
Pants on fire.

3. Muslims are exempt from health care law. 
Pants on fire.

4. The IRS is going to be in charge of a "huge national database" on health care that will include Americans' personal, intimate, "most-close-to-the-vest-secrets." 
Pants on fire.

5. Congress is exempt from Obamacare. 
False.

6. Under Obamacare, people who have a doctore they've been seeing for the last 15 or 20 years won't be able to keep that doctor. 
Mostly false.

7. The health care law is a "government takeover" of health care. 
Pants on fire.

8. Non U.S. citizens are eligible for Obamacare. 
Pants on fire.

9. Because of Obamacare health care premiums have "gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years." 
False. 

10. Under Obamacare "75 percent of small businesses now say they are going to be forced to either fire workers or cut their hours." 
Pants on fire.

11. "At age 76, when you most need it, you are not eligible for cancer treatment" under the health care law. 
Pants on fire.

12. The health care law includes "a 3.8% sales tax" on "all real estate transactions." 
Pants on fire.

13. "Obamacare is ... the largest tax increase in the history of the world." 
Pants on fire.

14. A "hidden" provision in the health care law taxes sporting goods as medical devices. 
Pants on fire.

15. Obamacare will question your sex life. 
Pants on fire.

16. An Obamacare provision will allow "forced home inspections" by government agents. 
Pants on fire.


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- Mark