CBO: ObamaCare will Cover Only 2% of US Citizens

By Sher Zieve
Monday, November 02, 2009 - 1:40:06 PM ET

You may have missed it, as the Obama State-run media sycophants have worked feverishly to suppress it. One of a handful of media outlets that did publish anything on it (AP) devoted only one paragraph to this extremely important piece of news. Said paragraph reads:

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Congressional Budget Office estimate suggests very few Americans under the age of 65 would sign up for health insurance under the much-debated public option. The CBO found that the scaled back government plan in the House version of health care legislation couldn't overtake private insurance, with only about 2 percent of Americans under the age of 65 opting in.

This is important because it completely contradicts what Obama and the White House have been saying for months…and months. Obama has alternately quoted figures of 47 and 46 millions and, then, 30 millions who are health care uninsured in the US. Suffice it to say, none of his figures come even remotely close to the truth--and now the Congressional Budget Office (headed and staffed by Obamaites) has confirmed what many of us have known all along. Note: As of July 2008, the US population was listed as 304,059,724. 2% of that figure is just over 6 millions--not 47 or even 30!

The CBO also stated that ObamaCare will be far more expensive to the consumer than is private health insurance--thus exposing yet another ObamaLie.

The new House of Representatives’ ObamaCare proposal now includes federally funded abortions (see page 110 which first states that abortions will not be allowed but a few paragraphs later says they will under “allowed public findingâ€