Tuesday, September 8, 2009

What about Republican health care proposals?

Nopsie, Rush - the party of NO is not providing any coverage to real health care reform.

The reason their “alternatives” are so brief is that it doesn’t take much paper and ink to say “NO!”

They are NOT proposing universal health care reform that would cover everyone.
They are only proposing minor tinkering around the edges, and issues that are only very indirectly related, and only in a financial sense, not a health care sense, such as tax credits to help people buy policies rather than reform the policies themselves (why is it always taxes, taxes, taxes with you guys) and tort reform (which even that is not, it is a proposal to cap awards and free corporate bullies from taking responsibility for wrongdoing, not REAL reform that would streamline the system and make it more accessible to more people).

And, as usual, Rush misstates the Democratic position since he either does not understand it or is simply still lying. No, it is not about “We won, so we can do as we please,” it is about, “We won, so we better follow through with the promises behind that mandate the voters gave us.”

And meanwhile, Glenn Beck just calls names because he really, really wants to say something but can’t figure out how to use real facts and discuss real issues.

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