It's not just tea parties and town-hall rowdiness that conservatives are putting up against health care reform: DC-based economic conservative group The Club For Growth will spend $1.2 million on a TV ad campaign attacking "government run health care"
in a handful of targeted states this week, the group announced today.
Ads will air in Nevada, Colorado, Arkansas, and North Dakota,
targeting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), plus moderate
Democratic Sens. Michael Bennett (CO), Mark Udall (CO), Blanche Lincoln
(AR), Mark Pryor (AR), Byron Dorgan (ND), and Kent Conrad (ND) (who is
involved in Senate Finance Committee negotiations with Republicans and
who supports a co-op plan that wouldn't include public insurance, but
rather member-owned co-op insurance groups), as well as a handful of
representatives.
The Club's ad uses a popular theme among reform opponents--that the
government will inject itself into health care decisions at the end of
a person's life...that bureaucrats will, effectively, decide to kill
the terminally ill. It's a talking point Democrats have hit back at
furiously and derided as false.
Hey Chris,
My old English prof mother would say your line, "It's a talking point Democrats have hit back at furiously and derided as false," while true is also trite and vaguely repetitive. The correct line should read, "It's a false talking point."
You, the effing media, have to escape false equivalencies. The fourth estate has to call bullshit on the spinmeisters - what else would you say your job is?
Chris,
The problem with your story is this: the government WILL inject itself into health care decisions. How can anyone honestly see it otherwise? Key word in the last sentence is 'honestly.'
Okay, so if tomorrow I loose my health insurance, these bozos will tell me: fine, you won't be at risk for euthanasia? Mind boggling, this sort of logic. Europeans will again laugh their ass off--Americans are simply too stupid to ever get universal coverage.
Yet ironically smart enough to do the world's medical research and innovation. Wait...
Thank Goodness someone has money to throw against this monstrosity.
"The Club's ad uses a popular theme among reform opponents--that the government will inject itself into health care decisions at the end of a person's life...that bureaucrats will, effectively, decide to kill the terminally ill. There is nothing in the proposed legislation to support this claim and Democrats have hit back at it furiously and derided it as false."
I fixed it for you, Chris. And look, you didn't even have to say yourself that it was "false", you just had to report on the that fact that there is nothing in the proposed legislation to support this claim while still ascribing the "false" claim to Democrats. Again, all you had to do was report on a fact that runs counter to the claims made by the right that the Dems and Obama want to kill granny.
So why didn't you do that?
Also, the ad talks about the healthcare system in the UK. Outside of the fact that what they have in the UK is hardly terrible - or did they start euthanizing folks over there in that island nation that has a higher life expectancy than our own country - who in Congress or the WH is proposing that we model our system after the Brits, that we establish our own NHS? A healthcare exchange the includes private insurers and a public option (or maybe not) and subsidies to help low-to-middle income earners purchase health insurance plus new regs that don't allow insurers to reject or overcharge people with existing conditions is government run healthcare? How so?