{"id":6665,"date":"2009-05-06T15:40:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T21:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/?p=6665"},"modified":"2009-05-06T15:40:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T21:40:43","slug":"the-gop-are-for-healthcare-reform-honest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2009\/05\/06\/the-gop-are-for-healthcare-reform-honest\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP are for Healthcare reform! Honest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/doublespeak.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/doublespeak.jpg\" alt=\"doublespeak\" title=\"doublespeak\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/doublespeak.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/doublespeak-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a>Frank Lutz, in yet another sterling example of Republican doublespeak, calls on the GOP to ‘support Healthcare Reform”. Only one problem with that statement – the GOP has absolutely no proposals to reform healthcare. Not one! The only perspective he offers is how to sound like you are for reform, yet offer no proposal of your own. From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou simply MUST be vocally and passionately on the side of REFORM,\u201d Luntz advises in a confidential 26-page report obtained from Capitol Hill Republicans. \u201cThe status quo is no longer acceptable. If the dynamic becomes \u2018President Obama is on the side of reform and Republicans are against it,\u2019 then the battle is lost and every word in this document is useless.<br \/>\n\u201cRepublicans must be for the right kind of reform that protects the quality of healthcare for all Americans. And you must establish your support of reform early in your presentation.\u201d<br \/>\nInstead, Luntz says Republicans should warn against a \u201cWashington takeover\u201d of health care, and insist that patients would have to \u201cstand in line\u201d with \u201cWashington bureaucrats in charge of healthcare.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That would be instead of standing in line waiting for a ‘for profit’ bureaucracy to determine your fate.<\/p>\n<p>As it currently stands, the current proposals are too limited, since none of the current proposals on the table include single-payer, as used in most of the developed world. In fact, at recent senate hearings physician activists in favor of single payer were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnhp.org\/news\/2009\/may\/doctors_single_paye.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">removed from the chamber and arrested<\/a> for interrupting the proceedings, while the committee went on to hear solely from industry lobbyists in favor of industry-based solutions.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0509\/22155.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Lutz, in yet another sterling example of Republican doublespeak, calls on the GOP to ‘support Healthcare Reform”. Only one problem with that statement – the GOP has absolutely no proposals to reform healthcare. Not one! The only perspective he offers is how to sound like you are for reform, yet offer no proposal of your own. From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou simply MUST be vocally and passionately on the side of REFORM,\u201d Luntz advises in a confidential 26-page report obtained from Capitol Hill Republicans. \u201cThe status quo is no longer acceptable. If the dynamic becomes \u2018President Obama is on the side of reform and Republicans are against it,\u2019 then the battle is lost and every word in this document is useless.<br \/>\n\u201cRepublicans must be for the right kind of reform that protects the quality of healthcare for all Americans. And you must establish your support of reform early in your presentation.\u201d<br \/>\nInstead, Luntz says Republicans should warn against a \u201cWashington takeover\u201d of health care, and insist that patients would have to \u201cstand in line\u201d with \u201cWashington bureaucrats in charge of healthcare.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That would be instead of standing in line waiting for a ‘for profit’ bureaucracy to determine your fate.<\/p>\n<p>As it currently stands, the current proposals are too limited, since none of the current proposals on the table include single-payer, as used in most of the developed world. In fact, at recent senate hearings physician activists in favor of single payer were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnhp.org\/news\/2009\/may\/doctors_single_paye.php\">removed from the chamber and arrested<\/a> for interrupting the proceedings, while the committee went on to hear solely from industry lobbyists in favor of industry-based solutions.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0509\/22155.html\">Politico<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,45,6,21,34,9],"tags":[953,4349,2448,4348,4350],"class_list":["post-6665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-civil-rights","category-current-events","category-economy","category-health","category-politics","tag-gop","tag-healthcare-reform","tag-policy","tag-politico","tag-politics-as-usual","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}