The Right Sharpens Knives for "Sicko"
By Jay Diamond
June 27, 2007
In this guest essay, radio personality Jay Diamond writes that Sean Hannity and other right-wing voices are trying to scare Americans with horror stories about "socialized medicine" while ignoring the valuable services performed by VA hospitals and Medicare:
Do a search on "Hannity 'Sicko'" or "Romney 'Sicko''' on any search engine and you will find an assortment of You Tube excerpts of Sean Hannity recycling talking points off the panicked presses of the Heritage Foundation, CEI, AEI, Manhattan Institute, etc., bearing dire warnings of the health care terror Michael Moore and other evil progressives are preparing to inflict on America.
But in all their truculent and fear-mongering invocations of the purported evils of "socialized medicine," there is curiously something that Romney, Hannity, and all the other American rightists consistently omit; and in that deliberate omission is an important lesson in the way America's hard right works their deceptions.
They never mention that there are more individuals right here in the United States who receive their health coverage on what you call "socialized medicine" than there are people in the entire country of France.
Add up all the people on Medicare and the Veterans Administration.
Hey Sean, Hey Mitt, Did you forget about those interesting little nuggets....Medicare and the VA ?
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/062707a.html#When:10:40AM
June 27, 2007
In this guest essay, radio personality Jay Diamond writes that Sean Hannity and other right-wing voices are trying to scare Americans with horror stories about "socialized medicine" while ignoring the valuable services performed by VA hospitals and Medicare:
Do a search on "Hannity 'Sicko'" or "Romney 'Sicko''' on any search engine and you will find an assortment of You Tube excerpts of Sean Hannity recycling talking points off the panicked presses of the Heritage Foundation, CEI, AEI, Manhattan Institute, etc., bearing dire warnings of the health care terror Michael Moore and other evil progressives are preparing to inflict on America.
But in all their truculent and fear-mongering invocations of the purported evils of "socialized medicine," there is curiously something that Romney, Hannity, and all the other American rightists consistently omit; and in that deliberate omission is an important lesson in the way America's hard right works their deceptions.
They never mention that there are more individuals right here in the United States who receive their health coverage on what you call "socialized medicine" than there are people in the entire country of France.
Add up all the people on Medicare and the Veterans Administration.
Hey Sean, Hey Mitt, Did you forget about those interesting little nuggets....Medicare and the VA ?
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/062707a.html#When:10:40AM
posted by progressivegrannie at 3:41 PM
1 Comments:
They also neglect to mention that 'fifty-one percent of the GOPers said universal healthcare coverage should be a right of every American'. Surprisingly, 49% approve of 'allowing gays to serve openly in the military'.
(from http://thehill.com/)
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