Health premiums are now $5,000 a year higher than Mr. Obama promised

Remember when candidate Obama promised to REDUCE health insurance premiums by $2,500 per family, per year?

Premiums have gone UP by that amount:

So our families are all, on average, paying $5,000 a year more than he promised.

That’s plenty of “change,” I’ll give him that.

Dean Clancy is FreedomWorks’ Legislative Counsel and Vice President, Health Care Policy. He leads our efforts to reverse the government takeover of health care and adopt a patient-centered approach.

[Chart above is by Joint Economic Committee Republicans, Sen. Jim DeMint, Ranking Senator, 2012.]

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