GOP: 'Government-run healthcare'

No money to foreign banks (as is being pushed by Obama and Pelosi in the current war supplemental) until all all Americans have health care. The Euro is doing better than our dollar. Why help European banks now when we are in deep water ourselves? Makes. No. Sense. Any lawmaker who votes to give foreign banks billions of our money--no matter what other bill this insanity is attached to--will be viewed as hating Americans. American tax money for American health before American tax money for crybaby European banks.

If you want to sell me insurance, sell me auto, life, accident, or property insurance. DON'T SELL ME HEALTH INSURANCE, WHICH IS A RACKET THAT WAS DREAMED UP BY THE INSURANCE COMPANIES, WHO WON'T SELL HEALTH INSURANCE TO SICK PEOPLE, WHERE IS THE PROFIT?? EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO HEALTH CARE. IF THE CITIZEN'S OF THIS COUNTRY DON'T GET NATIONAL HEALTH CARE, THEN NO ONE SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO HEALTHCARE PAID FOR BY THE TAXPAYER!! THAT INCLUDES TEACHERS, POLICE OFFICERS, FIREMEN, FEDERAL WORKERS, STATE WORKERS, LOCAL GOVERNMENT WORKERS, THE MILITARY AND ANYONE ELSE THAT GETS HEALTH CARE PAID FOR BY THE TAXPAYERS! AND WHILE WE ARE AT IT, NO ONE SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO A PENSION PAID FOR BY THE TAX PAYER, PERIOD!! whiteagle38

With the Republican smear-the-public-option campaign---designed by Wingnut mouth-breather Frank Luntz---in full swing, here's a handy, crystal-clear rebuttal you can print out and leave on windshields and utility poles (and even in emergency rooms!) across America:

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE OPTION

1. Choice, choice, choice. If the public health insurance option passes, Americans will be able to choose between their current insurance and a high-quality, government-run plan similar to Medicare. If you like your current care, you can keep it. If you don't—or don't have any—you can get the public insurance plan.

2. It will be high-quality coverage with a choice of doctors. Government-run plans have a track record of innovating to improve quality, because they're not just focused on short-term profits. And if you choose the public plan, you'll still get to choose your doctor and hospital.

3. We'll all save a bunch of money. The public health insurance option won't have to spend money on things like CEO bonuses, shareholder dividends, or excessive advertising, so it'll cost a lot less. Plus, the private plans will have to lower their rates and provide better value to compete, so people who keep their current insurance will save, too.

4. It will always be there for you and your family. A for-profit insurer can close, move out of the area, or just kick you off their insurance rolls. The public health insurance option will always be available to provide you with the health security you need.

5. And it's a key part of universal health care. No longer will sick people or folks in rural communities, or low-income Americans be forced to go without coverage. The public health insurance plan will be available and accessible to everyone. And for those struggling to make ends meet, the premiums will be subsidized by the government.

It might not hurt to give your senators a jingle and ask 'em which they embrace more: campaign contributions from the big insurance lobby and Frank Luntz's Republican propaganda, or historic legislation that will enhance their legacy and make them heroes among their constituents for improving the health and well-being of all Americans. Be patient---sadly, it could take some of 'em a while to decide.

Republican Corporate-Sponsored "Patients United Now" - A Big Insurance Industry Lobbying Group, Funded With GOP Dollars, Is Trying To Kill The National Healthcare Plan For Poor And Middle-Class Americans:

After orchestrating and funding the so-called "Tea Parties" movement, "Americans for Prosperity" — a nationwide front group founded and funded by the right-wing polluter Koch Industries — is launching an ad campaign characterizing President Obama’s effort to reform the health care system as a government take-over that will ration care and care and deny treatments.

"Americans for Prosperity" is notorious for its fake Republican grassroots efforts, funneling millions of dollars into conservative campaigns designed to undermine public initiatives. As Lee Fang put it, “AFP is a professional Republican AstroTurf machine”:

~ They Hosted ‘Drill Baby, Drill’ rallies around the country.

~ They Financed Joe the Plumber’s tour against the Employees’ Free Choice Act and other anti-EFCA rallies.

~ They Started NoStimulus.com, “a grassroots website that we hope will be a focal point for the widespread frustration ordinary Americans feel at the runaway government growth that we see during good economic times and bad.”

Now, they're operating under the name "Patients United Now, Americans for Prosperity", (which is mostly funded by large multinational corporations) and they're masquerading as an organic grassroots movement pretending to be "outraged" over the Presidents health care proposals.

The effort provides cover or ‘grassroots clout’ for conservative politicians and activists to oppose the President’s health care initiative. But this collection of trumped-up charges, outright lies and complete fabrications makes little headway in critiquing the President’s actual proposal." Just like all other peddlers of the “government take-over” critique — Frank Luntz, Conservatives for Patients Rights, Betsy McCaughey, Rick Scott and Sally Pipes — the goal is to define Obama’s proposal in their terms rather than to engage in a debate about health care or offer real solutions to the crisis. As Frank Luntz admitted to the New York Times, “we don’t know what he is proposing".
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http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/05/27/pun/

I want the opportunity to sign up for the same coverage those Republican Congressional leaders enjoy! Isn't their health insurance run by the government? I don't see any of them declining it!

Can't think of two institutions more suited for each other and where more mistakes have been made.

I'm having a hard time finding what the Republicans are calling a government run healthcare. I dont consider myself a Demoncrat by any stretch but I must say that I am understanding everything that the President is explaining and I am NOT finding just how this reform is or will be a government run plan. I'm just needing someone to effectively communicate the Republican view. I am not "for" the reform, just yet, but still honestly dont see what the Republicans are saying...