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Consumer Reports Magazine Shills for Obamacare! I thought they reviewed vacuum cleaners.Who Knew?
Consumer Reports ^ | August 2009 | Consumer Reports

Posted on 07/21/2009 4:14:32 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie

So my first copy of Consumer Reports arrives and I eagerly await exciting reviews of vacuum cleaners, pet food and garden tools. Imagine my surprise when I see that this August 2009 issue of Consumer Reports presents THEIR version of " A Prescription for Healthcare".

HUH? And so they proceed to tell me that " almost all agree that the healthcare system is BROKEN " and offer a SEVEN PAGE description of " how Consumer's Union would fix it" !

What followed was a complete commercial for Obamacare, replete with disengenuous distortions repelete with photos of examples of Americans for whom our Healthcare system has failed. ( kinda like those Obama voters who "appear " at his Townhall Meetings telling their tragic tale of woe.)

Consumer Reports "favors a National Health Insurance Exchange." Here's a clip from their rosy scenario... " couples who couldn't get or couldn't afford insurance from their employers could buy it directly from a private or public insurer through The Exhange with sliding -scale subsidies based on their income."

Then come the attacks of the opposition to nationalized healthcare...."Opponents of reform like to villify the public plan as "government takeover" of healthcare. We disagree. Its simply another insurer that uses the same private providers to deliver care."

Then there is a pont by point "refuting "of " 5 common fears of health reform"...such as "FEAR! Health reform will let facelss government bureaucrats come between you and your doctor."....

Gee, thanks for explaining away all my fears...Oh, now I'm not afraid of THAT anymore, WHEW!

After reading this article I am cancelling my subscription...after all, if they are THIS wrong about healthcare, how can they advise me on a vacuum cleaner!


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; consumerreports; government; healthcare; obamacare; plannedparenthood; zerocare
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1 posted on 07/21/2009 4:14:32 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie; Chieftain

What do you think?


2 posted on 07/21/2009 4:15:24 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Pray for Israel! And the Iranian people! and Honduras!)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Consumers Report is a libtard magazine? Who knew.


3 posted on 07/21/2009 4:15:31 PM PDT by Tarpon
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Aw Geeez...

Thanks for the heads up. I will send them a nasty gram and cancel my subscription.

4 posted on 07/21/2009 4:16:22 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

CR has always been a leftist publication.


5 posted on 07/21/2009 4:16:36 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Consumer who? Stopped reading them ages ago.

Can get all the appliance, etc. reviews and ratings I need via the internet.


6 posted on 07/21/2009 4:17:38 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

CR has been east coast liberal forever.
It’s what they do.

I’ll read it occasionally at the dentists office.
None of their “objective” evaluations on stuff like appliances matches up with my experience.


7 posted on 07/21/2009 4:17:46 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Anything that sucks, they’ll review is the way I understand it.

Regars


8 posted on 07/21/2009 4:18:49 PM PDT by Rashputin (blif)
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To: Rashputin

LOL!!!

It is fun to slam these jerks and go viral with my attacks on their leftists stuff...hadn’t bought the mag in years, what a shock!


9 posted on 07/21/2009 4:20:28 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Pray for Israel! And the Iranian people! and Honduras!)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

I was a long time subscriber that they drove away.

Eff them.


10 posted on 07/21/2009 4:23:33 PM PDT by listenhillary (90% of our problems could be resolved with a government 10% of the size it is now.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
So what's the big deal. CR sells out, as have other allegedly nonpartisan nonpolitical entities. The Skeptical Inquirer soiled itself last year with an embarrassing polemic sucking down the koolaid on manmade global warming, that destroyed its credibility as a skeptical forum forever. They don't care, because they got a large sum of money from undisclosed sources to open a branch in Washington DC. Surprise surprise. Follow the money.
11 posted on 07/21/2009 4:23:47 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Gah! If I subscribed, I would cancel!


12 posted on 07/21/2009 4:24:22 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

I subscribe only to the online version, for product ratings.

Routinely, when they fart out an editorial about (for example) socialized medicine, I email them to the effect of, “Just keep out of politics and review stuff.”


13 posted on 07/21/2009 4:24:35 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: pogo101

Great idea!


14 posted on 07/21/2009 4:25:54 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Pray for Israel! And the Iranian people! and Honduras!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

You are so right....what is disturbing is that this is where the “average” American gets their info...it all goes back to the dumbing down of education!


15 posted on 07/21/2009 4:27:10 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Pray for Israel! And the Iranian people! and Honduras!)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

time to cancel the subscription


16 posted on 07/21/2009 4:27:18 PM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
couples who couldn't get or couldn't afford insurance from their employers could buy it directly from a private or public insurer through The Exhange with sliding -scale subsidies based on their income."

How will that be possible, since the private insurance companies wont be allowed to take on new customers.

CR lies.

17 posted on 07/21/2009 4:29:49 PM PDT by lowbridge (It's not that liberals are ignorant, it's that they know so much that isn't so - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Consumers Union has always been an anti-american, anti-freedom marxist cult.

What’s new?


18 posted on 07/21/2009 4:29:59 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

I think they probably just lost a lot of subscribers.


19 posted on 07/21/2009 4:33:32 PM PDT by taillightchaser (When a democrat says "The American people" you know the next words out of his mouth will be lies.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

I knew beforehand they were a lefty publication. I hate it when they beat their chest and they delusionally think of themselves as the premier reviewer of everything.

Years ago, they tried to “expertly” review a laptop from HP that accdg to CNET and laptopreview.com were lemons but they keep insisting it’s top of the line.

Thanks for the heads-up anyway.

Oh do not buy WIRED mag either. They shill for Al Gore and glo-bull warming and had him on the covers twice already...


20 posted on 07/21/2009 4:34:21 PM PDT by max americana
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