Republicans Propagating Falsehoods in Attacks on Health-Care Reform

As a columnist who regularly dishes out sharp criticism, I try not to question the motives of people with whom I don't agree. Today, I'm going to step over that line.

The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a cynical effort to gain partisan political advantage. By poisoning the political well, they've given up any pretense of being the loyal opposition. They've become political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems.

There are lots of valid criticisms that can be made against the health reform plans moving through Congress -- I've made a few myself. But there is no credible way to look at what has been proposed by the president or any congressional committee and conclude that these will result in a government takeover of the health-care system. That is a flat-out lie whose only purpose is to scare the public and stop political conversation.

Under any plan likely to emerge from Congress, the vast majority of Americans who are not old or poor will continue to buy health insurance from private companies, continue to get their health care from doctors in private practice and continue to be treated at privately owned hospitals.

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If a system exist without competition it is control. Saying they have to compete is saying they lose control, it is not saying they go away. They just can not take as much profit from health care dollars as they want.

They can't use funds to put 'friendly face' names of corporations on stadiums and parks.

Them losing control is not the end of the private health care system, its adding competition, they can still compete, but they will have to compete and not just take what ever they want.

the dem propaganda machine has you thinking they are fighting a heated battle against the evil republicans. Distraction. Health care reform is now a huge boondogle, a giveaway to industry of the highest order. Prices will still spiral, there will be no competition, there will be no price control as with medicare, the government will end up paying ridiculous inflated prices to companies for low income subsidies---a huge scam but the not so bright democratic constituents are so fucking stupid they can't even see these basic facts.