NYSYR

This was the video that was shown on Fox and Friends on July 7th, 2007 about the cost of the health care reform package. (They edited it for length, which confused me since it's so damn short.)

In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform that implemented a number of policies that are now being mirrored in the Obama health reform plan. The president has repeatedly claimed that his plan will lower health care costs but not decrease health care quality. This visualization looks at how the Massachusetts plan has panned out in terms of cost and wait times.

How much is the $100 million dollars in budget cuts compared to the federal budget as a whole? This video imagines the budget as $100 in pennies to provide the answer.

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While the president's $100 million dollar cuts weren't even a drop in a bucket, the $17 billion in cuts at least means something. But it's a far cry from the "net spending cuts" we were promised.

NOTE: Thank you to FactCheck.org for noticing an error in my arithmetic. The Bush budget was actually 12 gallons less than the Obama budget (not 9)... so the real difference is actually greater than the video portrays.

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How do the Obama deficits compare with past presidents? And how did the national debt get so big anyway. This video tries to answer those questions by looking at the debt as a road trip and seeing how fast different administrations have been traveling.

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h/t http://www.youtube.com/10000pennies