J. D. Heyes – When campaigning in 2008 for what would become his first term in office, Senator Barack Obama promised that his health care reform plan, which would eventually pass and be dubbed “Obamacare”, would lower overall health insurance premiums for Americans by an average of $2,500 a year.

As noted in this video, Obama repeatedly made this promise. However, as they say in politics, that was then.

Seven years later and a full five years after the “Affordable” Care Act was enacted with only Democrats voting for it, the fallacy of Obama’s promise is extremely obvious to any so-called mainstream media “fact checker” website that would dare to actually look into it.

Leave it to those in alternative media to do the heavy lifting.

As reported by Liberty Blitzkreig, little of what Obama and the Democrats promised regarding the Affordable Care Act has turned out to be accurate, so “we shouldn’t be surprised this is also the case when it comes to his so-called ‘signature achievement.'”

According to Investor’s Business Daily, insurance premiums this year alone have climbed 4.2 percent for family plans, well above the 3 percent rise in 2013, reports the Kaiser Family Foundation.

In all, since Obama was campaigning in 2008, premiums have risen by $4,865. Coverage for many families is worse because deductibles have also risen dramatically.

Somehow, though, the Obama administration cheered the news, Investor’s Business Daily reported, saying that the figures showed that premium hikes were continuing to slow down.

Purposefully misleading

Since 2006, Investor’s Business Daily noted, the average annual increase in family plans has been 4.9 percent, which is down from about 10 percent a year from 1999 to 2005. Continue reading →