Shame on Yahoo! Features CNNMoney's hit-piece on healthcare

[keepCAblue]

Disgusted to see the featured "news" on Yahoo!'s home page this morning: "Health Reforms Downside: 5 Freedoms You'd Lose in Healthcare Reform"

It's a blatant hit piece filled with lies and distortions intended to drive fear into the the American public. The "losing freedoms" talk is pure Republican drivel. This piece should have been labeled "Paid for by the Republican National Party and the insurance lobby" it is so full of spin and politics...



If you read the fine print in the Congressional plans, you'll find that a lot of cherished aspects of the current system would disappear.

In promoting his health-care agenda, President Obama has repeatedly reassured Americans that they can keep their existing health plans -- and that the benefits and access they prize will be enhanced through reform.

A close reading of the two main bills, one backed by Democrats in the House and the other issued by Sen. Edward Kennedy's Health committee, contradict the President's assurances. To be sure, it isn't easy to comb through their 2,000 pages of tortured legal language. But page by page, the bills reveal a web of restrictions, fines, and mandates that would radically change your health-care coverage.

If you prize choosing your own cardiologist or urologist under your company's Preferred Provider Organization plan (PPO), if your employer rewards your non-smoking, healthy lifestyle with reduced premiums, if you love the bargain Health Savings Account (HSA) that insures you just for the essentials, or if you simply take comfort in the freedom to spend your own money for a policy that covers the newest drugs and diagnostic tests -- you may be shocked to learn that you could lose all of those good things under the rules proposed in the two bills that herald a health-care revolution.

More (if you can stomach it) --> http://finance.yahoo.com/insurance/article/107408/5-freedoms-you-would-lose-in-health-care-reform.html?mod=insurance-health