"Moonie" Washington Times sent email fighting the public option in healthcare reform:

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I must have gotten on their list after registering to comment on something they posted. Received this email from them today:



Below, please find a message from one of our advertisers, CMPI Advance. Periodically, we receive opportunities we believe you may want to learn about. Please note that the following message does not necessarily reflect the positions of The Washington Times.

Dear Friend,

Please join us!

Long waits for treatments, fewer choices, more government interference, higher taxes and higher health care costs -- does that sound like the kind of health reform you want? Congress’ so-called “public plan” threatens to raise your taxes, bankrupt the country and force millions of Americans out of their current employer-based coverage – and it does nothing to control rising health care costs.

Supporters of the “public plan” say that more government control of health care would inject new “competition” into our health care system. Yet the public “option” is built on government health care programs that are already going bankrupt here in the USA and outright failing patients in Canada and the UK. And incredibly, congressional reform proposals will force more than 119 million Americans from their good, private health care coverage to this new government-run program. That’s almost half of all Americans who already have health insurance coverage.

It’s time to expose the tremendous costs and consequences of government-run health care. There are better ways to make health care coverage affordable and patient-centered. That’s why CMPI Advance has created a Web site that provides policymakers and the public with facts and resources and, more importantly, encourages people like you to tell Congress to keep their hands off health care.

Please sign our petition today and tell Congress that the public plan is a poison pill for patients and doctors.




And make sure to visit us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, sign our Twitter petition, and Tweet your support to #handsoff.

Act now and join the fight against government-run health care today!

Thank you for your support,

Dr. Bob Goldberg
President, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest Advance

The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest Advance (CMPI Advance) is a nonprofit, non-partisan 501c4 organization promoting innovative solutions that advance medical progress, reduce health disparities, extend life and make healthcare more affordable, preventive and patient-centered. CMPI provides the public, policymakers and the media a reliable source of independent scientific analysis on issues ranging from personalized medicine, food and drug safety, health care reform and comparative effectiveness.


SHOULD A NEWSPAPER BE SENDING ADVOCACY INFO TO IT'S LISTS? OBVIOUSLY THE MOONIE TIMES IS UNETHICAL AND BIASED BUT I THOUGHT THEY ATTEMPTED TO DISPLAY FAIRNESS. NOTE THEIR DISCLAIMER STATES, "Periodically, we receive opportunities we believe you may want to learn about."