On Dec 31 2010, 12:31*pm, Higgs Boson wrote:
On Dec 31, 8:23*am, bud-- wrote:
HeyBub wrote:
bud-- wrote:
A poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press about a
year ago
http://people-press.org/report/537/
found that almost half of regular Fox viewers thought "health care
legislation will create death panels", an absurd propaganda piece.
## And guess what? They were correct.
(Wall Street Journal, December 29th)
"On [last] Sunday, Robert Pear reported in the New York Times that Medicare
will now pay for voluntary end-of-life counseling as part of seniors' annual
physicals. A similar provision was originally included in ObamaCare, but
Democrats stripped it out amid the death panel furor. Now Medicare will
enact the same policy through regulation."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...57604570280391....
(San Jose Mercury News, December 27-28th)
"Welcome back, death panels. Really.
"New Medicare regulations taking effect Saturday will pay doctors who advise
patients on end-of-life care, including options for advance directives on
how they want to be treated. This is all the health care reform proposal
ever intended."
http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stori...nclick_check=1
"They were correct"???
The Palin, et al, propaganda was that a "panel" would deny care to the
elderly.
- Where is the panel?
- Where is the denial? There is only counseling? Patients get the care
they decide they want. They can change their minds. Are republicans
against choice? (Or do they just lie about what is in legislation to try
to defeat it?)
What was/is proposed is only a "death panel" to an idiot like Sarah
Palin or someone who is dishonest (Fox?).
A NBC/Wall Street Journal poll about a year ago had 75% of Fox viewers
believing the health care reform would "Stop Care To The Elderly". Why
did such a high percentage of Fox viewers believe this insane lie?
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Fox viewers are a self-selected group, imperfectly acquainted with the
idea, much less the technique, of critical thinking. *You must have
seen the recent study that showed these viewers to be the most
misinformed of any group. * They hungrily cling to any myth that
validates their own tiny, frightened self-image.- Hide quoted text -
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And you must have seen the results of the last election that showed
most of mainstream
America thinks a lot more like Fox than Obama and the libs.