Newsweek: The Five Biggest Lies in the Health Care Debate

To the credit of opponents of health-care reform, the lies and exaggerations they're spreading are not made up out of whole cloth—which makes the misinformation that much more credible. Instead, because opponents demand that everyone within earshot (or e-mail range) look, say, "at page 425 of the House bill!," the lies take on a patina of credibility. Take the claim in one chain e-mail that the government will have electronic access to everyone's bank account, implying that the Feds will rob you blind. The 1,017-page bill passed by the House Ways and Means Committee does call for electronic fund transfers—but from insurers to doctors and other providers. There is zero provision to include patients in any such system. Five other myths that won't die:

You'll have no choice in what health benefits you receive.

No chemo for older medicare patients.

Illegal immigrants will get free health insurance

Death panels will decide who lives.

The government will set doctors' wages.

Gives origins and debunks most of the lies.


http://www.newsweek.com/id/214254?from=rss

They also portray the
Town Hall Face
in a picture essay:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/211920

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