Lies, misinformation, and distortion are still part of the health care reform debate when you talk to people on the right.
(Shocking, I know.)
I think in our effort to have reality-based debates on HCR strategy and policy, we can forget what our real opponents are still spewing in the fight against health care reform.
I have been engaged in an exchange on HCR with a childhood friend who is married to someone that was active in the insurance industry in Michigan for years. She just sent me an email with her take on why the Democrats' arguments for pursuing HCR are wrong.
The message reminds me of one of those pictures in a children's magazine where they ask you to find all the things that are odd and out of place --like a square wheel on a wagon or a stalk of broccoli growing among a stand of trees. The picture looks normal at first glance, but when you study it you see that there are so many things wrong with it that it is comical.
In between our calls to House members, I would really appreciate it if the experts and the well-versed in HCR could lend me a hand. Could you please read this email and point out all the square wheels and stalks of broccoli posing as trees?