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He says the government will make your health care decisions for you. This is a baldfaced lie. The plans in Congress offer a public option as a government alternative insurance plan only, like Medicare is right now. That's right medicare is a government controlled insurance plan. Does Boener want to repeal Medicare? It sounds like he does. Then he goes on to call this freedom. He lies that the bill will create more deficits and taxes. It will reduce the deficit and if anyone is taxed it will be the rich.
Yet it's interesting that progressives too are not happy with HR3962. They have been protesting in cities around the country this week in favor of a single payer system. Pelosi has now promised to allow a vote on Weiner's amendment for a single payer system.He says the government will make your health care decisions for you. This is a... more
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Rachel Maddow reports that the organized groups who have shown up at heath reform town hall meetings across the country are part of an entire industry devoted to proliferating fake grass roots(a.k.a. astro turf) appearances, in the face of their claims that they are average middle class Americans. She notes these groups are rum by a small group of the richest right wing Republicans in the country with corporate stakes in the issues they target.Rachel Maddow reports that the organized groups who have shown up at heath reform town... more
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