Posted on 08/19/2010 1:59:53 PM PDT by La Lydia
Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit, and instead stressing a promise to "improve it." The messaging shift was circulated this afternoon on a conference call and PowerPoint presentation organized by FamiliesUSA -- one of the central groups in the push for the initial legislation. The call was led by a staffer for the Herndon Alliance, which includes leading labor groups and other health care allies. It was based on polling from three top Democratic pollsters, John Anzalone, Celinda Lake, and Stan Greenberg.
The confidential presentation, available in full here and provided to POLITICO by a source on the call, suggests that Democrats are acknowledging the failure of their predictions that the health care legislation would grow more popular after its passage...Instead, the presentation is designed to win over a skeptical public, and to defend the legislation -- and in particular the individual mandate -- from a push for repeal.
The presentation concedes that groups typically supportive of Democratic causes -- people under 40, non-college educated women, and Hispanic voters -- have not been won over by the plan....
The presentation also concedes that the fiscal and economic arguments that were the White House's first and most aggressive sales pitch have essentially failed...The presentation's final page of "Don'ts" counsels against claiming "the law will reduce costs and deficit," advises, instead, sales pitches that play on promises to change the legislation...The presentation also counsels against the kind of grand claims of change that accompanied the legislation's passage....
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
This is huge.
Huge.
A peek into the Obama propaganda machine.
We need to ram this down their throats.
The Delphi Technique
Yes, that’s why for the first time in our history medicare has decided not to pay for an approved cancer treatment because it costs too much.
It’s starting - here we come England.
“If Republicans want to campaign against what we’ve done... that is a fight I want to have.” - Barack Obama on health care, Jan. 14.
Yes, my tweet of this says: Dems devise, circulate improved, more effective ways to be deceitful about socialized medicine
Reducing runaway costs was their whole argument as to why something had to be done and NOW. Couldn’t wait.
Of course, it was never about that and always about power and control. Nothing more.
Don't mend it,
End it!
How will rationing healthcare “improve it”?
I got a feeling our politicians in Washington who rammed this down our throat didn’t all just do this out of stupidity and supreme arrogance.
I am instead starting to think they wanted to accelerate this train-wreck so that they could proposes a completely socializing solution.
Anyone ever note how politicians never, ever note catastrophic effect on the health-care market of everything they have done to the same market over the last 70 odd years?
How our Human Health-care market is NOT functioning as most all other markets, because other markets are actually free markets, whereas after 70 years of growing government interference our Health-care market is perhaps the least free of all markets in the United States.
They created this problem and yet almost no politician in washing ton D.C. is even willing to talk about the way they carefully boxed our health-care industry in forcing it into this situation of explosive growth and repressive 3rd party control.
Instead all of their solutions seem to be about further expanding the power of government over this industry, just the same as all other solutions they ever had instead of letting up.
* Stop mandating that we treat people without pay(1986 COBRA law).
* Stop Providing tax benefits to socialized health-care cost management, thereby removing all practical individual responsibility and price selection.(Tax Code).
* Stop Forcing care providers to get the consent of their regional competition just to start up a new competing business!
* Stop mandating unlimited Liability and costly court cost. Heath care is in it’s biological nature a service prone to imperfections. The same imperfections that define our biology and nature plague this industry perhaps more then any other.
As much as we would like perfection thats never going to happen, least of all in this industry.
But politicians don’t talk about how their predecessor in government created all the problems with all theses repressive restrictions on the industry. They don’t talk about the evidence behind this fact being in a simple comparison with similar industry’s which have not yet become so infested with government regulations and monopolizations.
Instead it’s just a blind march to greater and greater government, never mind that everything they have done have only served to make the problem worse and worse!
Jim Geraghty says: “I think the Democrats’ best option to change people’s minds on health care reform is to accuse opponents of being bigots.”
“Jim Geraghty says: “I think the Democrats’ best option to change people’s minds on health care reform is to accuse opponents of being bigots.””
That is always the Democrat’s “best option”.
The race hate/fear War the democrats propagate and sell has always been the source of political power consolation and never the end of racism, hate, or fear.
Although given the fact that so many of us live less healthy lives due to the lack of price consequences miss-driving our health choices. Socialized health-care cost thou non-catastrophic health insurance can’t be said to be a good thing for people anymore then our subsiding the ill-prepared living of the folk in New Orleans. We are just setting people up for failure by allowing them to ignore the true consequence of their choices until its too late.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.