will cause premiums to go up???

Does he have to be told that the law doesn't allow you to keep a plan that you like but the law now says it must be replaced???

Does he have to be told that when you replace a policy with another policy it is probable that the new policy won't have the same doctors and hospitals in their network?????

If so... he either is dumber than dirt or he lied.

Obama never was for a single payer system modeled on Medicare paid for a national federal sales tax.

Neither was McCain or Romney.

But both were for strong national defense and a rational energy policy.

Normally, the FED controls short term interest rates by buying short term instruments. This increases their price, and, drives down rates.

But, now (meaning, after the '07-'08 disaster) that action hasn't had the desired effect. The Banks, which could borrow money at almost zero "0"
interest, kept the money for themselves, and, used it to set up an arbitrage scheme with long term bonds, setting up a guaranteed, no risk, income stream for themselves. Of course, the purpose of the FED'S lowering those rates was so the Banks could borrow money cheaply, and, lend it out to businesses, and others, to prime-pump the economy. So much for the Banks "doing the right thing."

O.K. So, since that didn't work, The FED changed its tactics, and started buying long term bonds. That was the beginning of the Q.E. (quantitative easing) Program. The idea behind that was that buying long term bonds would reduce long term interest rates, thereby, inducing buyers to switch from buying bonds to buying other assets, namely stocks. And, that's what was behind the incredible rise in the stock market these past few years.

Once again, the idea was that increased asset prices (stocks and other hard assets) would provide the famous "wealth effect," that would encourage people, who now felt wealthy, to go out and spend money. And, the program has worked......somewhat. The stock market did rise, people started buying houses, cars, and the luxury market shot up. However, since this was an artificially created boom for that small portion of our populace that already had money, the advance of our economy has been slow, tepid, and not wide spread. It did not "trickle down" to the population at large, did not create jobs, and, simply made the already rich even richer.

So, to wrap it up, the FED is almost at the end of its ability to improve the economy for the great majority of our country. The answer for "The Right," the 1%, is, squeeze the 99% even more. Unfortunately, IMO, the problem for The Left is.....there is no "Left," left. Smart economists, like Krugman, Stiglitz, DeLong, and, others, have said, from the beginning, that the money our government was willing to pour into our economy after the financial collapse should be going to the broad base of people, the 99%. Programs like education, job training, the infrastructure, and, a fairer tax code, would lead to a "real," sustainable recovery. The Rich would still get richer, but, they wouldn't get it ALL.

Well we know how it went. Obama had a choice to make; he could listen to Summers, Geithner, and Rubin, or, Krugman, Stiglitz, DeLong.