Health Care Reform is not scary, but the actions and words of its conservative opponents certainly are. In two different ways:
1. Not only are conservative activists attempting to disrupt the town hall meetings that our elected officials are trying to hold, but also there are calls that seem clearly calls to violence, and, arguably, assasination:
2. The conservatives are filling the public space with lies. The elderly will be pushed toward euthanasia, which they will want since advance medical care will be denied to them. Or, as I have heard it put, “Obama won’t let them have it; he wants them to take a pill instead.”
So far the democrats do not seem to have found a way to cope effectively with the disruptions. It is much easier to destroy civil discussion than to have it.
But some people are at work answering the false charges being made. I’m attaching a copy of a conservative letter that purports to find all sorts of awful stuff in the house bill,along with a step by step refutation. If you are going to be talking to conservatives(e.g., students) at some point soon, you may find the documents useful.
b. Response to Republican Claims
Thanks to CVille Dem at TPM.