Should we be referring to Health Insurance Reform opposed to Healthcare Reform?

EmeraldCityGrl

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Tue Aug-11-09 02:15 PM
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Should we be referring to Health Insurance Reform opposed to Healthcare Reform?

Seems like this is not just semantics. Referring to the issue of the day as "Healthcare reform" leaves the debate open to
ridiculous claims about euthanasia and death panels, where "Health Insurance reform lends itself to the issue of coverage.

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dflprincess

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Tue Aug-11-09 02:17 PM
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1. I think we should be referring to it as "saving the heallth insurance companies"

there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of reform involved.

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SharonAnn

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Tue Aug-11-09 02:18 PM
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2. No. We need reform of Health Care. Insurance is only one way to do that.

Could also be:

Public clinics
Single-payer system

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sharesunited

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Tue Aug-11-09 02:19 PM
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3. Absolutely! But enemies of reform will insist that one will adversely affect the other.

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Cant trust em

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Tue Aug-11-09 02:20 PM
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4. That makes a lot of sense actually.

Health insurance reform makes it sound a little less sweeping, but maybe that's a good thing.

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LeftinOH

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Tue Aug-11-09 02:28 PM
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5. Semantics is everything, since "Healthcare Reform" seems to equal "Execution Squads"

to rather a lot of people. Maybe 'Health Insurance Reform' is a better way to frame it- but we (Liberals, and Democrats specifically) don't have the same knack for manipulating language for maximum effect as the right wingers. Take for example the trademarked terms "Partial-Birth Abortion" and "Family Values".

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MindPilot

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Tue Aug-11-09 02:56 PM
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6. That's a good point because I was just making a sign

Edited on Tue Aug-11-09 02:57 PM by MindPilot

for my townhall this evening that will say something along the lines of

NO "Insurance Reform" -- Universal Single Payer HealthCARE!

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BattyDem

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Tue Aug-11-09 03:03 PM
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7. Obama's been saying "Health Insurance Reform"

I really hope he stopped saying "Healthcare Reform" simply because of the craziness that's going on (reforming healthcare = death panels) and not because of an actual policy change. I was optimistic until today's Town Hall - he mentioned the public option, but he didn't seem to be pushing it as strongly as he has in the past. :-(

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