| Americans are already paying for health care. We pay more than anyone else in the world for health care. Problem is, even though we've scrimped and saved to keep paying the insurance premiums, too often the profit-obsessed insurance industry denies our claim. Or drops us altogether when we get sick. And if they decide whatever we have isn't covered by that "comprehensive health care policy" we've paid premiums on for half a lifetime, do they kindly refund our (obviously wasted) money? No, they do not. They move it over into their "obscene profits" column, leaving us high and dry. Doing nothing has a cost. We're already paying for health care, we're just not getting our money's worth. The Just Say NO to Reform party apparently thinks that's OK. What’s the cost of not reforming health care? Premiums rising faster than your paycheck. Insurance companies dictating more and more medical decisions. Denying you coverage while their profits soar. The cost of doing nothing means rising co-pays and out-of-pocket expenses. Families faced with paying the mortgage or paying for health care. But some leading Republicans, playing politics, have vowed to kill reform. Tell Republicans the cost of doing nothing on health care is just too high. The lies and half-truths and outright scare tactics about reform aren't just coming from Washington or the usual mouthpieces like Rush Limbaugh and O'Reilly. Alabama Republicans are actively peddling health care reform disinformation, too. AlGOP Chairman Mike Hubbard says they're going to tax our iced tea to pay for it, along with a lot of other stuff he knows is either exaggerated or flatly untrue. Rep. Mike Rogers (R, AL-03) has been spouting scary half-truths about rationing and government run health care on the floor of the House of Representatives. His hometown newspaper handily takes him to task for those exaggerations. The White House is taking action to fight these health care smears. There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
Here in Alabama our disinformation isn't limited to anonymous emails. It's just as likely to come packaged in the form of an op-ed from a Republican leader or a floor speech by a Republican Congressman. No matter how you wrap it, it still smells like BS. |
