Lawrence A. Hunter: Obama using Andy Griffith to deceive seniors

(Washington Examiner) - At a cost of $700,000 of taxpayers’ money, Andy Griffith is on the air peddling President Obama’s propaganda about how wonderful ObamaCare is going to be for Medicare. He doesn’t have a clue as to what he is talking about.

The Obama administration itself released a report this week confessing that ObamaCare cuts $575 billion from Medicare over the first 10 years alone. The cuts will soar to $126 billion for just one year by 2019.

Obama is also trying to hide how high the Medicare cuts accumulate over the longer term by delaying the annual report of the Medicare Board of Trustees. That report is usually out every year by April or May. But this year the report is still nowhere to be found.

However, budget documents released during the ObamaCare debate indicate that the Medicare cuts will total $2.9 trillion over the first 20 years.