Posted on 08/10/2009 10:06:04 AM PDT by FormerRep
Dear Friend,
Anyone that's watched the news in the past few days knows that health insurance reform is a hot topic and that rumors and scare tactics have only increased as more people engage with the issue. Given a lot of the outrageous claims floating around, its time to make sure everyone knows the facts about the security and stability you get with health insurance reform.
Thats why weve launched a new online resource WhiteHouse.gov/RealityCheck to help you separate fact from fiction and share the truth about health insurance reform. Here's a few of the reality check videos you can find on the site:
CEA Chair Christina Romer details how health insurance reform will impact small businesses. Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes tackles a nasty rumor about euthanasia and clearly describes how reform helps families. Matt Flavin, the White House's Director of Veterans and Wounded Warrior Policy, clears the air about Veteran's benefits. Kavita Patel, M.D., a doctor serving in the White House's Office of Public Engagement, explains that health care rationing is happening right now and how reform gives control back to patients and doctors. Bob Kocher, M.D., a doctor serving on the National Economic Council, debunks the myth that health insurance reform will be financed by cutting Medicare benefits. There's more information and a number of online tools you can use to spread the truth among your family, friends and other social networks. Take a look:
We knew going into this effort that accomplishing comprehensive health insurance reform wasn't going to be easy. Achieving real change never is. The entrenched interests that benefit from the status quo always use their influence in Washington to try and keep things just as they are.
But don't be misled. We know the status quo is unsustainable. If we do nothing, millions more Americans will be denied insurance because of pre-existing conditions, or see their coverage suddenly dropped if they become seriously ill. Out-of-pocket expenses will continue to soar, and more and more families and businesses will be forced to deal with health insurance costs they cant afford.
That's the reality.
Americans deserve better. You deserve a health care system that works as well for you as it does for the status quo; one you can depend on that won't deny you coverage when you need it most or charge you crippling out-of-pocket co-pays. Health insurance reform means guaranteeing the health care security and stability you deserve.
President Barack Obama promised he'd bring change to Washington and fix our broken, unsustainable health insurance system. You can help deliver that change. Visit WhiteHouse.gov/RealityCheck, get the facts and spread the truth. The stakes are just too high to do nothing.
Thank you, David
David Axelrod Senior Advisor to the President
Can I have your autograph?
Did you send something to flag@whitehouse.gov?
Better turn yourself in to flag@whitehouse.gov. It’ll make your life in the gulag easier.
My good neighbor, also a conservative, received one also!
send it to flag@ - sounds fishy!
Have you been added to the “enemies” list?
They don’t call him Axelrodent for nothing....

Rahm, Glibbs and Axisrodent... who believes one word of these stooges?
They are desperate, they take anyone -— LOL.
Tell the dipstick that you don’t need him to tell you what is in the bill but that you have the capability to read it for yourself.
Ain't that how it works for the Dems?
Axisrodent... please!
No, the system we have right now gives control to the patients. We don't like one insurance company, we can go to another or pay our own way. If Pres. Obama has his way, the only entity who will have power over our healthcare decisions is the gov't.
even better!
I signed up during the election to monitor the left. I object to A-Rod calling me a “friend”.
They are having to resort to “mob” tactics. Must be sinking like the Titanic.
Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.
Any idea what kind of chow they serve in neo-siberia?
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