President Obama’s claims that ObamaCare has incorporated the best cost-cutting proposals from both sides of the political aisle, are specious. His pledges to conduct state-level medical malpractice reforms, investigate Medicare and Medicaid fraud, increase Medicaid provider payments, and permit health savings accounts in the health exchanges, are vague and plainly lacking in seriousness — while his rhetorical diversions reveal his disregard for empirical evidence and for substantive discussions of serious cost-cutting proposals.