The GOP propaganda machine is in full spin as operatives and hot talk stations spread lies and hysteria about items said to be found in the current House bill language of the American Affordable Health Care Act.
Talk of genocide on both ends of the life cycle are paraded down the street in a grotesque death march of wing nuts eager to drink any Kool-Aid and any lie to sabotage discussion about actual substance. Scare tactics included outrage over mandated funding for abortions and assisted suicide for those over 65.
Per a recent Kaiser Family Foundation analysis, the abortion coverage was modified significantly in committee. The Energy and Commerce Committee amendment: Prohibits abortion coverage from being required as part of the essential benefits package; and requires segregation of public subsidy funds from private premium payments for plans that choose to cover abortion services beyond Hyde—which allows coverage for abortion services to save the life of the woman and in cases of rape or incest; and require there be no effect on state or federal laws on abortions. See also the Guttmacher Report of July 22, 2009, that discusses these restrictions in the context of the insurance industry.
The genocide mandate is a considered a wild distortion of the House Bill. All manner of documentation to the contrary, Republicans try to paint a provision for suggested elderly medical counseling every five years as some Soylent Green scenario where seniors are meekly led to assisted suicide chambers.
Snopes, Media Matters, and AARP try to dispel these distorions originally forwarded by wing nut Betsy McCaughey.
Despite the facts, these same talking points of abortion funding and killing Grandpa were rebroadcast all day Friday by the vast right wing echo chamber, including Rush Limbaugh, and by the sick freak, Glenn Beck. //// The blatant and not-so blatant sabotage that’s happening in our country today regarding health care reform is nothing short of criminal. People’s lives are actually at stake and once again, people’s ignorance and lack of education and being informed is about to do us all in… The greed from our health insurance companies shouldn’t be surprising, if you’re paying attention, but it’s still astounding to me.
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The Republicans did …
The Republicans did lie to sabotage the Bill but the Dems rushed the Bill.
I support the Reform but the legeslation was just one big clusterfuck.
REPUBLICAN ARE THE …
REPUBLICAN ARE THE DEVILS ADVOCATE.
You say, …
You say, Republicans are idiots…??? Do you know that THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Is a REPUBLIC NATION!!! fool….read the Constitution…..there is no party system in this country only what you make of it. Obviously you want to separate the Nation than unify. God Bless America
Republicans are …
Republicans are idiots.
I never thought our …
I never thought our government would fail us so badly. If you think corporate greed is behind many of our problems wait and see what the government has in store for us in the near future!
This is nothing but a greedy power grab by Pelosi, Reid, Obama and the other socialists. The pain these people are inflicting on this country is unreal – and all under the guise of “fairness” and helping people.
We have an entire …
We have an entire generation of American brats whose parents worked hard to pay for their every need, medical and otherwise, so they expect government to fill in as their parents when they grow up.
Insurance does not cure the sick, it only pays the fees. Money does not grow on trees, so if insurance is too expensive then cancel your cable TV subscriptions and stop being a consumerist glut and living it up with credit card debt. Start saving like the Chinese!
That poll in the …
That poll in the end means nothing if it does not show a comparison with what Democrats responded on the same survey. It’s propaganda, not information!
Humana is refusing …
Humana is refusing to pay for my one year-old daughter’s nebulizer treatments.
There’s private enterprise for ya!
Obama needs to go …
Obama needs to go off on these lying bastards. They took The President of the United States, addressing our children, about staying in school, working hard, and never giving up, as a bad thing?! Wow! And we wonder why Japan is beating our kids? I agree with Marher, he should get Harry Truman on them…..his weakness is he is toooooo nice! But we still have three years left…..he will soon get fed up with the bs….and look out redumbs!!!
Think about it: …
Think about it: They want their country back! Obama supporters, we need to support our president, they are trying to demonize him, There is not one liberty that we as citizens had while bush was prez. that we do not have under President Obama…..they are sickening! Lets rally together again and knock the out of them with CHANGE!!
Yeah Bill is really …
Yeah Bill is really in the tank for Obama, that’s why hes criticizing him every Friday and saying hes not following through, sounds like a real kool-aid drinker to me.
You people can’t …
You people can’t really be that stupid.
That’s typical of …
That’s typical of the anti-Obama crowd, micahgee. They make groundless accusations and when questioned, repeat the accusation.
They’re frequently unable to support their position with a cogent argument and rely on dismissive quips to deflect attention from that fact.
In that tank for …
In that tank for Obama? The accusation has no validity because of the total absence of evidence supporting it and the abundance of evidence contradicting it.
I stick with my …
I stick with my original comment. Maher, your a god idiot and in the tank for Obama. And micahgee, pay attention.
And neither shoud …
And neither shoud democrats.
in the tank for …
in the tank for Obama by criticizing him?
Your last sentence …
Your last sentence confirms you are an ignorant yourself, but also a hypocrite. Our country will never be taken from us, if anybody ever tries to, the people will bring him/her down, but let me inform you, that those against the reform and against Obama do not speak for the rest!
Hey. I started …
Hey. I started watching that Alex Jones video about John P. Holdren, and I have to say it’s a total joke. Challenged? Ignorance? There was nothing challenging in it. It was fear-mongering paranoia. And you can’t be ignorant about paranoid stupidity. Thanks for the laugh, douchebag. Ha ha ha ha ha!
U dumb maher! U …
U dumb maher! U need Jesus.
Maher you’re a …
Maher you’re a idiot.
In the tank for Obama. You transparent bastard.
I’m curious. Do …
I’m curious. Do republicans teach their children to lie, cheat and steal? Like if there is a dispute over a toy, do they teach their kid to share or just scream loud and lie? I wonder why they would tell their kid one thing and do another themselves.
Republicans are …
Republicans are negative, jealous, retards that shouldn’t even exist.
Emanuel, however, …
Emanuel, however, believes that “communitarianism” should guide decisions on who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those “who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens . . . An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia” (Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. ’96).
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel -health-policy adviser at the Office of Management and Budget to Obama (Deadly Doctors, NYP)
bill maher can suck …
bill maher can suck eggs