You mean the poll LIED? Rasmussen, Media Misrepresent Obama Health Care Promise

Rasmussen, Media Misrepresent Obama Health Care Promise



http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/rasmussen-media-misrepresent-obama-health-care-promise

On Monday, The Hill reported on a new Rasmussen poll under the provocative title, "Nearly half of voters don't believe key healthcare promise by Obama." That supposed pledge, as The Hill described it, was that "the law would not require individuals to change their coverage." But absent from this incendiary meme was the real guarantee President Obama repeatedly made that "what I'm saying is the government is not going to make you change plans under health reform." Sadly, as the accelerating erosion of workplace health care coverage shows, your employer is another matter.

Rasmussen (whose polls The Hill noted in passing "are widely believed to trend to the right") found:



But throughout the explosive health care debate in 2009, Obama made clear time and again that when he said, "nobody is talking about taking that away from you," the President was referring to the government. His was an obvious - and understandable - effort to debunk a Republican talking point dating back to the demise of the Clinton health care debacle.

For example, at a June 23, 2009 press conference, President Obama left no doubt about the meaning of his message: