The first battle in the war over universal health care has begun, with the Bush administration and its right-wing allies targeting bipartisan legislation to expand and reauthorize the under-funded State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). They’re doing so with a slick campaign comprised of lies, distortions and sloganeering that derides the proposed bills as paving the way for socialized medicine.… return to article
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Reader Comments (1)Page 1 of 1 pagesA Bush administration “that derides the proposed bills as paving the way for socialized medicine.” A lie and an hypocrisy which the majority fall for. A big con.
Interesting though that the polyps surgeons removed from Bush’s colon (or brain) were paid for by his government health plan, which is a form of “socialized” medicine. But this is conveniently ignored or reframed in double-speak.
One issue here is that the criminal elements who run our government don’t want the rest of the American people to have a universal health care plan like they do. Maybe they believe that allowing the rest of our citizens in on such a good deal would weaken and dilute the quality of their own health care. It would also mean that political (financial) support from big pharma and other related industries would dry up.
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