The GOP’s Latest Dirty Trick – A Fake California Covered Healthcare Website
By Doug Porter, San Diego Free Press
After two months of regularly hijacking the 24 hour news cycle with horror stories about the Affordable Healthcare Act, Republicans here in California reached a new low this week. They rolled out a fake Covered California website via mailings to constituents (apparently paid for by taxpayers) from GOP Assembly members. Taxpayers also paid for creation of the faux website, registered with GoDaddy.com
Rather than inform users about their healthcare options, clicking on highlighted topics like “Don’t Have Insurance” leads to negative news stories, filled with misinformation or out of date data. The idea, of course, is to discourage people from signing up; part of the GOP strategy to make Obamacare collapse due to lack of interest.
This is shameless and breathtaking in the scope of its misdirection and misinformation. If you had any doubts about the fact that these people care for nobody but the rich, visiting this bit of Astroturf on the web should put your concerns to rest.
A visit to the “Don’t Have Insurance” tab tells the user all about penalties and includes a penalty calculator. No mention is made of potential benefits and no access is provided towards determining the actual costs of health insurance. Visitors are also warned that, should they actually want insurance, they’ll just be subsidizing those shiftless lazy moochers known as “sick people”.
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