Fight GOP fear-mongering!

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Almost half of all American residents under 65 may lose their health care coverage in the next decade, according to a new report from the Treasury Department. It can happen to anyone.

If you’re under the age of 21 today, chances are more than half that you’ll find yourself uninsured at some point. More than one-third of Americans will go without coverage for longer than one year.

Many Americans with insurance thought that "the uninsured" always referred to someone else, but between skyrocketing costs and insurance company practices; they’re beginning to worry that they could find themselves uninsured too.

In the United States of America, no one should have to worry that they’ll go without health insurance, not for one year, not for one month, not for one day.

The party of fear, the GOP, is trying to scare you and your Members of Congress into preserving the failed status quo.

Don't give in to their scare tactics.

if you are among the hundreds of millions of Americans who already have insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing has been proposed that will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have.

if you’re one of the more than thirty million Americans who can’t get coverage at any price, you’ll finally have quality, affordable choices. If you lose your job, change your job, or start your own business, you will be able to get coverage.

Guaranteed.

There are no "Death Panels".

Unless you mean the insurance company underwriters who want to go on denying you coverage because of a pre-existing condition, dropping your coverage when you get sick, or watering it down when you need it most.

Don't fall for the bogus claims of the Republicans and the paid "protesters" who disrupt public debate. Fight the fear!
 
Nice DNC fearmongering.

The solution is tort reform and allowing interstate insurance purchase.

But of course, liars like you present that full communization of healthcare is the only option.

In debating, this is the logical fallacy of a "false dilemma". The status quo and the full government option are not the only options.
 
FreedomWorks, which was one of the lobbying groups involved in orchestrating the Astroturfed anti-Obama "tea parties" on April 15, 2009, began pursuing an aggressive strategy to create the false impression of mass public opposition to health care and clean energy reform at Congressmembers' town-hall meetings in their districts.

A leaked memo from Bob MacGuffie, a volunteer with the FreedomWorks website "Tea Party Patriots," describes how members should infiltrate town hall meetings and harass and intimidate Democratic members of Congress: "Spread out in the hall and try to be in the front half. The objective is to put the Rep on the defensive with your questions and follow-up ... You need to rock-the-boat early in the Rep's presentation. Watch for an opportunity to yell out and challenge the Rep's statements early. If he blames Bush for something or offers other excuses -- call him on it, yell back and have someone else follow-up with a shout-out ... The goal is to rattle him ..."
 
Speaking as the co-chairman of FreedomWorks" on CNBC in December 2004, GOP Gauleiter Dick Armey spoke glowingly of 'Rx Outreach,' a national mail order program for low-income people that had just been launched by Express Scripts Inc., a pharmacy benefit management firm based in Maryland Heights, Mo.

At the time, FreedomWorks had been working with Express Scripts' public relations firm, and a week later issued a news release praising Rx Outreach. Now, Express Scripts says it plans to donate money to Armey's group, though it won't say how much or when.

The arrangement could call FreedomWorks' tax-exempt status into question because "it appears that the group was a 'mouthpiece' for hire," wrote the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which noted that assertion was "sharply disputed by FreedomWorks.

Bill Allison of the Center for Public Integrity said, "It's rare to see someone pushing a company this directly. It does look like it's more of a commercial for this company than a discussion of policy."

Law professor Frances Hill noted that "corporate contributions to nonprofits are not supposed to benefit the donor." Hill added, "What it begins to look like is that the organization is operating for the private benefit of the company."
 
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