Mitch McConnell: Obama ‘Has a Very Difficult Time Telling the Truth’

MCCONNELL: “Well, one of the things the American people have really learned firsthand here in the last few weeks, that the president has a very difficult time telling the truth. This is the guy who said if you have your insurance and you like it, you will get to keep it. Now we knew at the time that was not true. He knew at the time it was not true. And now his suggestion that we don't have an alternative, he knows is also not true. What we wouldn't have done is pass a 2,700-page bill that takes a trillion dollars away from health care providers and costs -- and causes millions of Americans to lose the health care plans that they have and like. We would have gone in a different direction. To use a medical metaphor, instead of taking a meat ax to the American health care system, we would have pulled out a scalpel and done things like interstate health insurance. Small businesses, allow them to pool together in order to purchase insurance cheaper. Medical malpractice reform at the federal level. Imagine how much money is lost every year with unnecessary tests. Those are the kinds of things that we would have done."