HEALTH CARE -- TEA PARTY SPONSOR AFP LAUNCHES ANTI-HEALTH REFORM ADS: Today, the right-wing Americans for Prosperity (AFP) will launch a $1.7 million TV ad campaign claiming that President Obama's health care plan is the same as "Canadian-style health care." The ad fearmongers on the issue of wait times, featuring a Canadian woman who intones, "As my brain tumor got worse, my government health-care system told me I had to wait six months to see a specialist." "I would have died" under Canada's system, she said. AFP is a classic "astroturf" group representing big polluters andright-wing lobbying groups, responsible for helping stage the conservative "tea parties" last month. The AFP ad's narrator says, "Liberals in Washington want to bring Canadian-style health care to the U.S." In fact, neither Obama nor Democratic leaders in Congress are proposing a single-payer government system. But conservatives don't care about the facts: In an interview with the New York Times,conservative pollster Frank Luntz admitted that he would continue raising the false specter of a "Washington takeover" of health care -- whether or not that was Obama's actual proposal. "I'm not a policy person. I'm a language person," Luntz said.

 

 

 

----GOT THAT WINGNUTS HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT TRUTH, JUST ABOUT STICKING HIS FINGER UP YOUR ASS AND MOVING YOUR LIPS.------

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan

I believe that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty. - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Panelists:
 Bowen Garrett, senior research associate, Health Policy Center, Urban Institute
 John Holahan, director, Health Policy Center, Urban Institute
 Andrew Hyman, team director and senior program officer, Health Care Group, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (moderator)
 Karen Ignagni, president and CEO, Americas Health Insurance Plans
 Len Nichols, director, Health Policy Program, New America Foundation

If federal health reform efforts are not enacted, a forthcoming Urban Institute study finds, more than 60 million Americans could be uninsured within 10 years as insurance premiums increase to unsustainable levels for individuals, families, and businesses. As a result, private coverage will fall, enrollment in public programs will increase, and the number of uninsured will rise. Middle-income families will be the hardest hit.

The analysis, prepared for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, uses three economic scenarios, each of which shows mounting strains on business owners and their employees over the next decade. Individual and family spending on premiums and out-of-pocket costs would increase significantly. In addition, spending on public programs would jump and costs for uncompensated care would grow.

Urban Institute researchers will present their analysis, with reactions from top health care experts.

At the Urban Institute
2100 M Street N.W., 5th Floor, Washington, D.C.
Read the 28 page pdf of the study at:

http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411887_cost_of_failure.pdf

 

go ahead rightwing nutbars, let some actual knowledge into to your little skulls full of mush.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan

I believe that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty. - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.