The Truth About the GOP Agenda: GOP Claims that Health Reform Is Increasing Health Costs Are FALSE

[babylonsister]

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The Truth About the GOP Agenda: GOP Claims that Health Reform Is Increasing Health Costs Are FALSE
September 13th, 2010 by Speaker's Press Shop


An editorial in USA Today this morning debunks the GOP talking point repeated this weekend by House Republican Leader John Boehner that the Affordable Care Act will “bankrupt our country” and should be repealed.

The editorial points out that health insurance reform achieves a remarkable result: bringing insurance coverage to an additional 32.5 million people and ending the worst insurance company abuses, without any significant increase in total health spending.

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Democrats in Congress and President Obama enacted landmark health insurance reforms to make health coverage more affordable for small businesses and families, and protect young adults, the middle class, women, and seniors. Despite the clear benefits of health insurance reform – Republican leaders are standing with insurance companies and want to repeal the Patient’s Bill of Rights which protects Americans from discrimination when they need it most – when they get sick or have a pre-existing condition.

Bottom line: Repealing health insurance reform would eliminate key protections for millions of Americans. We won’t go back to a broken, unsustainable health care system. We can’t afford it.

[COLGATE4]

1. Doesn't matter

One editorial in one issue of "USA Today", maybe a repeat with Olbermann and Maddow, and then it's gone, drowned in the deafening RW and mainstream media echo chamber of 'Obamacare raises health care costs". Rinse and repeat. Faux friends, Faux "news", Rushbo, Beck, O'Leilly, Hannity, etc. etc. etc. What message do YOU think the great unwashed populace of low information voters is going to take away?

[karynnj]

2. That's why the USA Today editorial's information needs to be

repeated by every Democrat running - and those that aren't. I wonder if this is something worth sending to the entire list of any RW chain letter that any of us get.

[woo me with science]

3. I don't care.

The administration still owns this debacle. They trumpeted health care reform and affordability, and the result was to MANDATE purchase of corporate health insurance plans whose benefits are priced out of the reach of ordinary Americans. Whether the outrageous increases are directly attributable to the bill or not, we were sold a bill of goods, and the administration did nothing to stop this.