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DNC Organizing to Destroy U.S. Healthcare

By Matthew Vadum on 5.17.09 @ 1:00AM

Organizing for America, a propaganda arm of the Democratic National Committee, is lying to Americans about leftists' proposed so-called reforms of the healthcare system.

As the Politico reports, a new fundraising email from the group (full email here) claims TV ads from Conservatives for Patients' Rights are distorting President Obama's Big Government healthcare proposals:

We knew healthcare reform would face fierce opposition -- and it's begun. As we speak, the same people behind the notorious "swiftboat" ads of 2004 are already pumping millions of dollars into deceptive television ads. Their plan is simple: torpedo healthcare reform before it sees the light of day by scaring the public and distorting the President's approach.

We need the resources to take them head on with an urgent, grassroots campaign to pass real healthcare reform in 2009.

When the swiftboaters flood the airwaves with distortions, we'll flood the streets with volunteers armed with facts. When they send lobbyists to tell Congress to back down, we'll send millions of calls, letters, and stories from real Americans asking them to stand up.

That ObamaCare, like HillaryCare before it, would destroy the nation's healthcare system, is beyond dispute. It would turn hospitals and doctors' offices into the DMV. Patients would receive treatment --even in life-and-death cases-- at the whim of bureaucrats, and would be forced to line up to get it.

This is not hyperbole. To make matters worse, Canada is being bankrupted by its universal healthcare scheme and Canadians, including politicians who routinely mouth platitudes in support of the government-run system (e.g. billionaire MP Belinda Stronach, former Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa), routinely flee to the U.S. to receive treatment they can't get in their own country.

Quebec, incidentally, doesn't even have an air ambulance system to bring patients to emergency rooms, a fact that may have cost British actress Natasha Richardson her life. (Wild animals take priority over people in Quebec. The provincial government does use helicopters to air-drop rabies vaccine to skunks).

Conservatives for Patients' Rights is trying to save Americans from this socialist healthcare Hell by sharing the real-life horror stories of physicians and patients in Britain and Canada.

How is this a distortion?

On the contrary: it's deadly accurate.

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Mary| 5.17.09 @ 9:51AM

You know the internet is addicting. I gotta take a break, but before I do...

I don't think the whole "swiftboat" shtick will work very well. Kerry said he was going to sue them for slander; their reply? Send the papers fed-ex; we'll pay for them for you. These Vets were operating on a whole other level. A successful one.

Via Contentions and Noah Pollack:

***From the president’s new speech, linked on RCP, entitled, “Two Pillars of a New Foundation.”

I have spoken repeatedly of the need to lay a new foundation for lasting prosperity; a foundation that will support good jobs and rising incomes; a foundation for economic growth where we no longer rely on excessive debt and reckless risk - but instead on skilled workers and sound investments to lead the world in the industries of the 21st century.

Two pillars of this new foundation are clean energy and health care.

Does Obama know that pillars rest on top of foundations, not the other way around? If George W. Bush said something like this, we’d never hear the end of it.***

A friend of mine voted for Obama not because she hated Bush and Cheney. She voted for Obama because McCain offered her nothing he could articulate, so she decided "they've got to have a chance too." A positive racism? Maybe. But I admired her sentiment because it was born of a sense of fair play. She's soured on him over the past couple of weeks. And now she can't stand to hear him speak. Now, I'm the one talking her down from the ledge: "You voted according to the info you had at the time." "It's not the end of the world; it's possible McCain could have been worse." She's disgusted; says she through voting because it's a useless exercise. She didn't say so, but I think the reason she's soured on him is that she expected him to govern more intelligently and to really implement change in a more methodical, well-thought out and slower paced way. He's lost her confidence.

The President's shtick on energy and healthcare are not a very easy sell to the masses. In part because of the lack of knowledge on nearly everyone's (word?) part and in part because we instinctively know that technological advance may be able to be helped by government but not mandated. And that healthcare, while a problem both economically and socially, is a very complicated issue that also cannot be solved by government strong-arming. Defects won't be solved they'll just be shifted. And most Americans are happy with their healthcare.

Using the economic argument about relieving business of the burden of healthcare in order to stimulate manufacturing and jobs isn't much more than speculation, as far as I can tell. France, Germany have unemployment rates close to what ours are now. Last I knew, Germany's was 8.3.

While the Republicans can't stop the Congress from passing whatever it wants; they can alert the public of the dangers of this maximalism that this administration is bent on imposing on the Country. If Republicans love their Country, they'll work and they'll work hard towards defending it from this kind of maximalism. No demagoguery is necessary; just a prudent, well articulated "please, America, let's make sure we look before we leap," message.

How hard can that be? Instead of wasting time renaming the Democrat party, the Democrat Socialist party, why not actually try to impact governing. If they can't do this; there really isn't any purpose for their existence. What party, in the condition in which the Republican party finds itself, spends its time on inanities like renaming the Democrat party? You don't get more left-of-the bellcurve than that. You just don't.

Mary| 5.17.09 @ 9:59AM

Outside some punctuation errors which I'll leave be, rates close to what ours are now should readis now.

mannew| 5.17.09 @ 12:28PM

If you want to know what Obama's Healthcare will be,look at the internet to see what George Soros wants . He believes that medicine should be rationed to the fit. Anyone with a chronic condition will be allowed only palliative care (read hospice). Most Seniors have a chronic condition so this would hit them the hardest. If they are allowed to die then the money for health care and social security would go farther.

Oldefarte| 5.17.09 @ 2:03PM

Mary: Your comments concerning your friend [A friend of mine voted for Obama not because she hated Bush and Cheney. She voted for Obama because McCain offered her nothing he could articulate, so she decided "they've got to have a chance too." A positive racism? Maybe. But I admired her sentiment because it was born of a sense of fair play. She's soured on him over the past couple of weeks. And now she can't stand to hear him speak. Now, I'm the one talking her down from the ledge] ARE the REASON that Obama is now in the White House. Your reasoning is accurate and very beneficial. I'm of the opinion that conservatives and/or Republicans should just prepare for the upcoming elections [local,state and national], instead of wasting their time with tea parties, listening tours,etc. They should purposely vote for conservative challengers to moderate/incumbents [ie Bubio over Christ in Florida] and eventually remake the party into a truly conservative representative of NORMAL Americans!

Mary| 5.17.09 @ 8:10PM

Olde, I agree.

I'm hoping the American people understand that we are not Europe and there's no reason to want to become like Europe. We are the world's best hope. If we continue along the path being laid out for us, we won't even be able to defend ourselves against a determined aggressor. We really will go out with a whimper.

FUCKKKK OBAMA| 5.18.09 @ 10:47AM

I hope Obstrd gets cancer soon and gets no treatment. that bstrd.

navyvet48| 5.19.09 @ 7:56PM

Great piece Matthew. I have to use the VA system you don't need to tell me about big government health care. The VA rations care. Not only that but I definitely wouldn't want to have a colonoscopy. Three VA centers in the South have given veterans HIV and Hep C. Bad deal because the VA wasn't cleaning surgical equipment after each surgery. UGH!

navyvet48| 5.19.09 @ 7:56PM

navyvet48| 5.19.09 @ 7:57PM

Linda Mae| 6.1.09 @ 1:17AM

"mannew| 5.17.09 @ 12:28PM

If you want to know what Obama's Healthcare will be,look at the internet to see what George Soros wants ."

How absolutely true. Read The Shadow Party to see exactly what Soros has done, what he is doing now, and what his plans are for our future. Obama belongs to George. I'm tired of our suffering of Sorosis of the mind. There is also a great piece about Obama and Chicago politics which will curl your hair in the August 2007 edition of The New Yorker. Read them and then share them with at least 10 others. We have only ourselves to spread the word.

jany| 1.11.10 @ 1:47AM

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