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With many still in dark, groups shed light on new health care law.

Tue, 08/17/2010 - 10:05 — Dave Culver
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  • With many still in dark, groups shed light on health care law
  • Obama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick

Richard Wolf, USA Today

Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Bob Heberle

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., listens to aide Ellen Qualls during a May briefing to explain the law's benefits. Alex Wong, Getty Images

True or false: The new health care law will cut Medicare benefits for seniors. It will slash Medicare payments to doctors. It will ration health care.

In three polls conducted last month, large percentages of Americans answered "true" to each statement. All three are false.

Six weeks before the nation's health care delivery system begins a huge transformation, confusion reigns. For example: The debunked idea raised by opponents during congressional debate that "death panels" could make end-of-life decisions is seen as real by nearly half of those surveyed.

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Obama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick, Chris Hedges, TruthDig

  • The new health care legislation not only mocks the lofty promises made by President Barack Obama, exposing most as lies, but sadly reconfirms that our nation is hostage to unchecked corporate greed and abuse.
  • The dizzying array of technical loopholes in the bill—written in by armies of insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyists—means that these companies, which profit off human sickness, suffering and death, can continue their grim game of trading away human life for money.


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