With all the talk of freedom and liberty, you would think a health care reform plan that gives rights back from insurers who took them away, would be an issue in the GOP repeal debate. It isn’t. Check out this sample story from St. Louis Today:
"The new law is giving people more freedoms and more choices," Sebelius told reporters. "Repeal really takes away all of those freedoms and shifts power back to the insurance companies."
Republicans, however, are pushing for a repeal of the law, calling it a job-killing mandate that raises costs all around and promotes government intrusion in decisions that should be left to individuals and doctors, business owners and regulators at the state level.”
Sebelius had it right about giving people back their freedom to control health care decisions and choices.
But you’ll notice in the follow-up paragraph that repeal didn’t include putting insurers back in charge or that it would be “promoting INSURER intrusion in decisions that should be left to individuals...”
Insurers aren’t mentioned at all.
It would seem Republican efforts to put free market profits and insurance companies back in control of people’s lives would be like handing the keys back to industry, but as Republican spin would have it, the supposed “government takeover” of health care actually did the opposite:
Rep. Todd Akin said the system that he and fellow Republicans are trying to repeal is … loaded with sweet deals for insurance companies. "So it's ironic to be making that claim" about freeing Americans from worry, Akin said.
Sweeter than the insurance industries total control like before? Amazing down the rabbit hole BS.
And that’s how the press is reporting it, without ever questioning absurd statements like Akin’s.
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