Elizabeth Edwards Shows How to Tell a Liar on Healthcare

[lame54]

http://crooksandliars.com/bluegal/rachel-maddow-show-elizabeth-edwards-shows (For Video w/ Rachel Maddow)

Elizabeth Edwards Shows How to Tell a Liar on Healthcare
By bluegal Friday Jul 24, 2009 9:45am

In an interview with Rachel Maddow, Elizabeth Edwards dropped this enormously helpful key on when to tell if an opponent to healthcare reform is lying:

Let me say to the American public: if you hear somebody saying, we can't afford healthcare reform, because...if they use any of these words: "socialization," or "government control of your healthcare decisions," or if they mention "England," "France," or "Canada," you can be assured that they are not telling you the truth. They are trying to scare you away from a plan that can make a real difference, not just in American families, but in the American economy as a whole.

Our friends at Sadly, No! take a look at the actual outcomes between the US and Canada. I don't think it will surprise you to see that the U.S. system doesn't measure up so well:

Circulatory disease deaths per 100,000:

Canada: 219
United States: 265
Child maltreatment deaths per 100,000:

Canada: 0.7
United States: 2.2
Digestive disease deaths per 100,000:

Canada: 17.4
United States: 20.5
Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births

Canada: 5.08
United States: 6.3
Intestinal diseases death rate

Canada: 0.3%
United States: 7.3%
Proability of not reaching age 60:

Canada: 9.5%
United States: 12.8%

[fascisthunter]

1. their lying to Americans is getting very old... their softer image is gone

and underneath we see what a bunch of fascists they are.

[timeforpeace]

2. She's an expert on telling someone is a liar?

[gratuitous]

3. Well, she was in treatment for cancer when her husband cheated on her

So maybe she had other things preoccupying her at that time. But thanks for your concern.

[aquart]

4. She is now.

And what a piece of work would sneer at her for it.

[lame54]

5. you're right - they're not lying

[conscious evolution]

7. Unlike many here on DU

she knows how to recognize a propoganda campaign.

[jannyk]

8. Please don't distract from the message by attacking the messenger

Those are pretty telling statistics and we should be using them.

[mzmolly]

9. On heatlh care....

eom

[ramapo]

6. Look at life expectancy

From the CIA World Factbook: The United States is #50 behind many countries with that dread socialized medicine where "you have to wait in line for months for treatment of your heart attack and where the old are routinely cut off from treatment and left to die to keep expenses down".