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If you’re going to complain about your opponents telling lies, it’s best not to follow it up with a huge whopper.  Yet that’s exactly what President Obama did while speaking to his buddies at the AFL-CIO labor day picnic:

I’ve got a question for all these folks who say, you know, we’re going to pull the plug on Grandma and this is all about illegal immigrants — you’ve heard all the lies.  I’ve got a question for all those folks:  What are you going to do?  What’s your answer?   What’s your solution?   And you know what?  They don’t have one.   Their answer is to do nothing.

This is as bold and blatant a lie as they come.  Here’s Representative Price discussing one such solution in an op-ed today:

Republicans have put forth bold ideas that can transform American health care in a positive way — without a government takeover of medicine. Before the August recess, I joined with a number of colleagues to introduce H.R. 3400, the Empowering Patients First Act. Our solution is built upon the principle that when individuals are given control and ownership, we will achieve full access to coverage and see the entire system move in a positive, patient-centered direction. While we join in the national critique of the President’s misguided proposal, we also offer positive solutions for health care reform.

One need not look far to find alternative health care plans, even outside of congress. The Cato Institute, one of those critics of the big government plan that Obama slams, offers a comprehensive, free market approach.

Update: Reason offers to introduce Obama to Google, the use of which would highlight alternative proposals in unheard of venues such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and The New York Times.

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