Now I've heard it ALL! - "The Govt. is going to put old people to death"!

[demo dutch]

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/29/gop-scare-tactic/

exerpt--
REP. VIRGINIA FOXX (R-NC): Republicans have a better solution that won‘t put the government in charge of people‘s health care, that will make sure we bring down the cost of health care for all Americans, and that insures affordable access for all Americans, and is pro-life because it will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government.

REP. PAUL BROUN (R-G): A lot of people are going to die. This program of government option that‘s being touted as being this panacea, the savior of allowing people to have quality health care at an affordable price, is going to kill people.

RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: People at a certain age with certain diseases will be deemed not worth the investment, and they will just—as Obama said—they‘ll give them some pain pills and let them loop out until they die and they don‘t even know what‘s happened.

[Bicoastal]

1. Soylent Green is Republicans!

[NYC_SKP]

2. Can we start with Senator Sessions and his friends?

I mean, ya gotta start somewhere!

:evilgrin:

[Xipe Totec]

3. That's the Sarah Palin Alaska Health Care Plan

If you're sick, walk into the woods until you see a grizzly or a polar bear, and then smack them in the nose.

[Birthmark]

4. Republicans are already putting people to death

...and not just the old. They don't care. It's economic "collateral damage", the price of having a "free market."

[WeDidIt]

5. IT's a new group of conspiracy theorists, THE SNUFFERS!

Birthers and Teabaggers and snuffers, OH MY!

[valerief]

6. I thought that was the job of insurance companies! nt

[SoFlaJet]

7. Project much?

Expect to hear a LOT of this kind of talk in August as the GOP spends a million dollars in advertising to try and kill health care. You guys should all tune in to Randi Rhodes today, she's on this story big time. http://www.randirhodes.com/

[hedgehog]

8. Of course, no senior now faced with the donut hole ahs to choose

food, heat or medicine?

[Raine1967]

9. I am currently debunking this crap.

Myth 29: Health Care reform will pressure the elderly to end their lives prematurely.
Or in another form: It will allow for legalized physician-assisted suicide.

REALITY: The section of the bill this myth is referring to is SEC. 1233. ADVANCE CARE PLANNING CONSULTATION: It amends the Medicare Act to allow coverage for patients to receive counseling about end-of-life care options every five years if they so choose. Moreover, prominent medical societies have supported such counseling.

Here is an analysis of this portion of the bill:
Provides coverage for consultation between enrollees and practitioners to discuss orders for life-sustaining treatment. Instructs CMS to modify 'Medicare & You' handbook to incorporate information on end-of-life planning resources and to incorporate measures on advance care planning into the physician's quality reporting initiative.

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While Foxx says this crazy ass crap, there ARE people out there believing this shit. All one has to do is go voer to freeperville, or even get a viral email from a winger friend. She clearly has not read that the bill increases funding for end of life caregiver-- like HOSPICE.

I am still working on recoding this site, and there are some design issues that we are working out, but here is the debunked myth: http://healthcarereformmyths.org/HealthcareReformMyths.php#A29

and here it the home page: http://healthcarereformmyths.org/

(more debunking to come in the next few days. )

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. I think Democrats only should have healthcare free

the likes of Rush and the RWers don't deserve it! He is such a twit!

[uponit7771]

11. They're runnin out of crap to fling

[theothersnippywshrub]

12. I thought only republican old people were to be put to death. n/t

[Connie_Corleone]

13. That was my understanding.

[rocktivity]

14. She's a DEATHER!!!

And we can make her look just as stupid as the Birthers! Get that guy who chased down the Birther Rethugs in DC! And CUE THE VONAGE THEME!

:woohoo:
rocktivity

[moondust]

15. Dumb as mud.

The Zombie Pukers demonstrate yet again what a really low regard they have for the intelligence of Americans as they keep dreaming up the craziest shit you've ever heard in your life AND TALKING ABOUT IT IN PUBLIC!

Again and again and again and again and...

[and-justice-for-all]

16. Some of the dumbest shit I have ever heard..

has been said by ConRepukes and their ilk.

[4lbs]

17. Somebody in Congress has been watching "Logan's Run" after a bout of bad pizza again. (n/t)

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[Jennicut]

18. Sigh. My conservative parents are already spouting this crap to me.

They really need to stop listening to Rush. Maybe I need to take all their tvs and radios away...

[TheKentuckian]

19. Yet many can't possibly understand why reform is hard to pass.

Especially reform that would eliminate options for people to make other choices. This is exacerbated by the media walking lockstep with the opposition to highlight this crap and give it an air of legitimacy or at least a big platform and plenty of repetition.

[question everything]

20. I did not realize the extend of this crazyness until I watched Rachel

I think that the Blue Dogs owe us this, at least: go and talk to their conservative constituents and convince them how stupid this is.