Right-Wing Group That Declared Public Option Dead Now Blasting It In New Ad
Another sign of the remarkable turnaround in the public option’s fortunes, and how panicked the anti-reform forces are about its current prognosis:
Conservatives for Patients Rights, the anti-reform group headed by controversial former hospital exec Rick Scott, is now up on the air attacking the public option — even though Scott was so confident of its demise only a month ago that he released a personal video hailing its imminent destruction. Here’s the new ad:
The current spot attacks the public option as “government run” health care and raises the now-familiar specter of rationing and of government getting between you and your doctor.
In his previous video, Scott hailed the defeat of the public option on the Senate Finance Committee as a “great day,” and called its defeat a done deal, saying the American people had “rejected” it.
Maybe not so much: Now Scott’s group says its spending another $325,000 attacking it, on top of God knows how much the group already spent targeting the hated provision in precisely the same terms the new spot is employing again today.
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HMO’s already routinely get between you & your doctor. That’s why they exist.
This guy is like a cancerous growth that keeps coming back.
“On top of God knows how much the group already spent.”
Does Greg typically use such over the top characterizations when describing the PhRMA money or union money spent on the other side of this issue? (Not to mention – don’t you think he might be alienating his atheist readers?) And I don’t believe we need turn to God to detetrmine the figure – isn’t it a matter of public record – like the amount of health insurance PAC money the Dems receive?
sbj, that doesn’t seem like the most outlandish bit of hyperbole ever attempted in the history of political rhetoric…
@Greg: No, but it sure seems that when you DO dole out the hyperbole it only comes out on one side. The post would have been better without it – that sentence sticks out like a sore thumb and makes you appear far less than objective, IMO.
sbj, I think the tone is justified in the context of the earlier video’s claim that the American people had “rejected” it.
sbj – I hereby pronounce you Nitpicker in Chief (NIC)
@Greg: “sbj, I think the tone is justified in the context of the earlier video’s claim that the American people had “rejected” it.”
Your call. Seems like that guy really got you pissed! Didn’t PhRMA pledge to spend $12,000,000 to support Obama h/c reform?
This would make some sense if it weren’t for the facts. The facts as we now know it is OBAMA HIMSELF DOES NOT WANT, NEVER WANTED, A PUBLIC OPTION, AN OPT-IN, AN OPT OUT OR ANYTHING ELSE BUT A WEAK TRIGGER.
Greg, you need to keep current. This is last week’s story. Now we know the truth. Where are you?
Keep those socialists away from my Medicare morans!
Greg, you’re getting distracted again by the troll. Stick to the message. You nailed the theme.
It’s a fact anti-HCR thugs spent “On top of God knows how much the group already spent” levels of money to kill PO and yet it is alive. Good to see these thugs yelp.
It’s a zombie public option, back from the dead to eat your children and pull the plug on kittens.
Predictably, the hillbillies keep shifting the goalposts.
Morans, every lousy, proudly ignorant one of ‘em.
Greg, did you see the brawl in @ WaPo?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/02/iwashington-posti-employe_n_342337.html
EPIC FAIL! This guy is a true disgrace. Duplicitous clown! Hey Rick, hope you don’t suffer a stroke or heart attack or fall down a flight of stairs and break your neck! Because that would be sad?
“It’s a zombie public option, back from the dead to eat your children and pull the plug on kittens.”
It would eat their brains, but they don’t have any.
Well unless the Dems in the Senate can find some way to end a filibuster in the Senate without 60 votes, it is dead.
The GOP is a wholly owned subsidiary of Corporate America.
The fact remains that big insurance by refusing care to patients and reimbursement to doctors over typos has ticked everyone off. They have a monopoly over the whole process and a well financed lobby team (including Lieberman’s wife) and representatives on both sides of the isle.
A friend of mine recently laid off just he and his spouse is paying $2,500.00 dollars a month for his COBRA. Health insurance costs more than his mortgage. Anyone taking up the insurance industry’s cause doesn’t know what they are talking about.
If you think the insurance companies are going to voluntarily lower their cost while having a monopoly over the process – you are being disingenuous …Over 60% of all US bankruptcies are attributable to medical problems. Most victims are middle class, well educated and have health insurance – (The American Journal of Medicine)
The insurance companies and their representatives in Congress would love to perpetuate a business model that is crippling our overall economy – a bunch of great Americans aren’t they?
90% of the wealth concentrated in 1% of the population is no way to run a country but a heck of a way to establish a royalty ruling class. Yacht sales can not sustain 350 million people. I’m for the public option, competition and a level playing field or break up the big insurers like we did AT&T.
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