Diane Black (R-TN) just now on MSNBC blathering R talking points on ACA

[Skidmore]

is a former nurse. She literally chirped on and on about how "the Amerian people don't want this" and how healthcare reform is some how harmful to everyone. Most of these former healthcare workers/physicians who wind up in Congress have been the most strident of opposition to any reform in healthcare. It is infuriating because it leaves me to conclude that protecting the perks of the profession afforded by the current system is somehow more important than providing the healthcare so many need.

http://www.patientsactionnetwork.com/physicians-of-the-112th-congress/

[CatWoman]

1. did you see her brain explode when whe tried to discount the cost data

and Alex told her the numbers/figures were coming from stories in newspapers in her own state???

Black tried to imply the WH is releasing false data.

[Skidmore]

4. She was just infuriating.

If she is willing to engage in this level of deceit, the helping professions are better off without her.

[notadmblnd]

2. it means a lot to them

this is going to go a long way at putting the ever rising costs in check. In the short term they aren't going to be able to put huge $$ in their pockets. But what I think that they are failing to see is what they will gain by it in the long term. Just think, millions more people being able to get health care. It means billions more dollars for them.

[DURHAM D]

3. Every talking head that has been on tv is saying the exact same thing -

"the American people don't want this". Obviously Frank Luntz provided that talking point given that they are ALL using it.

However, none of the media heads are making any response to it as I have heard it on Ed, Rachel, Alex Witt, and Tweety so far and not a single one of them responded to it. They just leave it out there unchallenged.

[Skidmore]

5. I have noted that as well.

I have yet to hear any one who has said this cite an actual poll for this claim.

[kentuck]

6. Ted Cruz said it several times.

The American people do not want Obamacare.

As if to include everyone.

[DURHAM D]

7. The point is that the MSNBC hosts are letting it go.

[CurtEastPoint]

8. Interesting tidbit...she's a 1%er. Figures: Her net worth is almost $29 million...

Her net worth is almost $29 million because of her husband's stake in Aegis Sciences Corporation, a "...forensic chemical and drug-testing laboratory specializing in the Zero-Tolerance Drug Testing® testing programs for businesses, professional and amateur sports drug testing, pain management physicians, and medical examiners"

Not only is she rich, but that money is ill-gotten.

Fucker.

[shenmue]

9. She is a fib-teller

I'm pretty sure most people do want to go to the doctor. It's that often they can't afford it. The ACA will change that.

[gulliver]

10. Why should someone who flopped as a nurse get to say anything?

Why are we listening to a "former" nurse talking about a health care issue without asking if she was a good former nurse? Given that she was a Republican, the odds are that she got out of nursing when she found out it required her to help people.