Column: Broken Promises

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Not surprisingly, unmet expectations have become a recurrent theme. During his campaign, President Obama assured American families that his health-care reform would save them $2,500 in insurance premiums within his first term. Instead, as surveys by the Kaiser Family Foundation have found, premiums have increased by nearly that much since he took office.

The President also promised that the new law would not force Americans to switch insurance plans. As time would tell, the law's onerous regulations are actually discouraging employers from keeping coverage. According to the Administration's own estimates, up to 80 percent of small businesses will drop their current plans by next year. In turn, more Americans will have to look to government-run programs for insurance -- further driving up the national debt.

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