This is great. It was only a matter of time before someone linked the AIG mess to healthcare. The ad, by Conservatives Patients Rights Action Fund puts in context what a Congressional healthcare overhaul would mean:
Just how dangerous are these ads? The left has decided to totally ignore the message and focus on savaging Rick Scott, the head of the organization. They are deeply fearful of the message and want to distract from it by going after Scott.
According to a poll conducted by CPR, 60% of Americans believe “Congress should not pass the President’s healthcare budget without having specific details of the President’s healthcare plan and how the money will be spent.”
If it’s like the stimulus plan, though, Congress will never show us the plan until the plan is passed.
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Kyle-MI (Diary) Friday, March 27th at 10:05AM EST (link)We also need to make the connection between the stimulus and loss of freedom such as the loss of money for employees of AIG who ran profitable parts of the company. What government pays for, government also controls. When government pays for health care, it will also control who gets what. A single government payer means that everything that is health care is now a right that you will have no choice but to pay through your taxes, everything from in-vitro fertilization for single women on welfare to Viagra to sex changes to partial birth abortion.
It's hard to do all that in a 30 second ad.
Brian Hibbert (Diary) Friday, March 27th at 10:11AM EST (link)I think this made the point pretty well. Congress has been spending billions without even reading the bills. It didn’t turn out well with AIG and it wont turn out well with health care.
I see why the libs think it’s dangerous. It’s hard to argue with the truth.
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youthgrunt (Diary) Friday, March 27th at 10:46AM EST (link)that in the President’s press conference (or whatever that was) that his expressed rationale for health care reform was to help balance the budget? Now what do we think that might do to the service levels and wait times?
"...focus on savaging Rick Scott, the head of the organization"
Steph C (Diary) Friday, March 27th at 10:47AM EST (link)I suppose we’re all going to be enemies of the state soon.
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fisk2521 Friday, March 27th at 10:57AM EST (link)Great information on American health Care from the National Center for Policy Research website:
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/BA649
My fear is that this is just an attempt to bring another of our institutions down to the lowest common denominator (like education)……
People must think about what it is like to deal with the federal bureaucracy on social security, medicare – - and who will have access to the ‘best’ care for life threatening diseases at our major medical school institutions – - the place where the research and most effective treatments are being developed. It won’t be through your friendly federal government gurus..
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